On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:47:48 +0530, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2...@gmail.com> wrote: > The current implementation of the indicator that the paraguay builds > use has static 'computer' icon for the frame. The palette menu > displays the memory and cpu 'free' status by means of dynamically > updating text-labels and progress bars. > > 1. Would it be worthwhile to have the frame icon dynamically updated > as well, displaying icons such as the ones given below: > http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/computer-happy.svg > http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/computer-normal.svg > http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/computer-sad.svg > > The idea is to make the students aware of the system-load in > response to their actions. Such an expressive means might be both > intuitive and easy to interpret. >
+1 Thats is what I think it should do, even when bars and percentages are very useful, expressive icons can be far more effective to communicate the overall status. > 2. Should the progress bars' 'filled' portion correspond to resources' > 'in-use' or 'free' percentage. Currently, a 100% free CPU would mean a > full progress bar in the palette menu. This will probably need to > change since it is the opposite to how the journal space is > represented in its corresponding progress bar. > I agree with you, there should be some coherence with the bar usage, I think anything will be ok always is coherent regardless from how we use the bar. > -- > Anish Mangal > an...@sugarlabs.org > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Martin Dengler > <mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:17:37AM +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: >>> > Furthermore, what all system parameters should be made available >>> > through such a means (such as free memory, and cpu load)? >>> > Suggestions and opinions welcome! >>> >>> Time and date would be good. >> >> We've been there: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:MartinDengler#Add_a_clock_.28to_the_frame.29 >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014270.html >> >>> Tony >> >> Martin >> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel