On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 11:28 -0700, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Concky looks great, but I thought we could only embed Python code in the > frame.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. > > If a rewrite in Python is required, then we could as well start from > Tincho's original work and improve it. While the happy/sad laptop might > be an over-simplification, opening the palette did reveal real memory > and cpu usage data: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png > > The lag observed by Iain in updating the data also bothered me. The > stats were being updated every 5 seconds because a reviewer was > concerned about increasing idle power usage. I'd be in favor of > increasing the update frequency and maybe skip the UI updates when the > frame is hidden. The same optimization would benefit all the existing > frame indicators and background updates to the Network view, which take > a ton of CPU time. > Perhaps I was being over-hard, but of course one is only really interested in the monitors, when not sure if resources are sufficient! I have had a go with conky on osbuild - it is not working quite correctly. (I may have some options contrary in the mix between top level and transparency.) However I can share a screen-shot [1] and the ~/.conkyrc [2] I used. yum install conky conky -c .conkyrc from Terminal Activity Regards, Iain [1] http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-240514-031742.php [2] http://ur1.ca/hdbh8 > > On 05/23/2014 04:08 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > > +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 <mailto: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 > > <mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> > > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org <mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Walter Bender > > Sugar Labs > > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel