On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz < bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 05:48 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: > > Sugar presently lacks a means to display the current status of system > > resources such as free memory, CPU load, etc. I'd like form an opinion > > as to what should be the ideal way to make these numbers available to > > the user. > > That's a great question! > > The original Sugar design specifically called for the Home View's Activity > Ring [1] to display the memory usage of every running activity, and there > were even test implementations of this. It proved difficult to measure > memory usage well, and the Activity Ring was dropped with the Sugar 0.82 > interface redesign. However, tools for measuring memory usage in Linux > have improved since then. I think showing the memory usage of each > activity would be very useful. > > Showing per-activity CPU usage would also be interesting, although I think > it is both harder and less useful than memory usage, because it changes so > rapidly. > > > Perhaps an icon (or a set of icons) could be added to frame to > > graphically display real time data, their context menu revealing more > > detailed information. > > I personally think that per-activity numbers are often more interesting > than system-wide numbers. As such, I would associate the resource > utilization statistics with each running activity's icon in the taskbar > (top frame bar). The problem is how to display the information in a way > that is discoverable but not intrusive. > > --Ben > > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_ring See also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Designs/Activity_Management#Memory_economics<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Designs/Activity_Management#Memory_economics:> and Eben's reply, http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2008-April/005021.html.
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