[Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread Anish Mangal
Idea! How about extending the meaning of 'system mood' to more than just the memory and cpu usage metrics. What would contribute to my system being 'unhappy'? Off the top my head, the ones I could think of are: + I'm almost out of resources (cpu, memory). + If I have a battery, its almost empty.

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 09/15/2010 10:53 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > How about extending the meaning of 'system mood' to more than just the > memory and cpu usage metrics. I think this is a great idea, and a good learning opportunity if we expose the units of measurement (watts, megabytes, etc.) > + I'm almost out of r

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > On 09/15/2010 10:53 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: >> How about extending the meaning of 'system mood' to more than just the >> memory and cpu usage metrics. > > I think this is a great idea, and a good learning opportunity if we expose > th

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > Idea! > > How about extending the meaning of 'system mood' to more than just the > memory and cpu usage metrics. > > What would contribute to my system being 'unhappy'? Off the top my > head, the ones I could think of are: > > + I'm almost ou

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Anish Mangal wrote: > How about extending the meaning of 'system mood' to more than just the > memory and cpu usage metrics. As I've mentioned in the other thread, this is not a good metaphor. If you have a box, as long as things _fit_ in it, you're ok. An almos

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should system mood really mean? (forked from #2141 UNSP: Memory and CPU status indicator for the frame.)

2010-09-15 Thread ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student)
I was reading through these threads and suddenly had an idea. My dad has a honda insight and on the display it shows a bar correlating to how well your driving your car (efficiency wise). A pictures of it can be found here ( http://www.insightman.com/images/euro-5.jpg) and here ( http://www.insight