+1 to something like conky, which is real information instead of pretending to give the kids information. if you want smiley faces, they should have real data behind them.
regards. -walter On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Iain Brown Douglas < i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:34 -0005, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > Hi, > > I remember Sugar as deployed in Dextrose 1 had a signature happy/sad > > laptop icon and both memory / cpu load indicators. > > > > > > I am dogfooding Sugar again on a memory constrained laptop and am in > > need of a memory monitor, and this would be lovely. > > > > > > Is that code alive? Maybe it was a good idea to have by default. > > > I remember testing that on a low resource machine and the avatar lagged > the events, and was not educational. > > I felt that the ability to embed a couple of elements from conky [1] in > the frame would be superior. I have found conky to be understood by very > young testers. > > Regards, > Iain > > [1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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