hello Excuse me for not following the windicator discussion earlier too closely. I just read about the planned categories, and wanted to point out that the list is lacking a resource consumption management category, or jam windicator as I'd call it. The icon should show whether or not the relevant process is causing the system to jam at the moment. Displaying this information would help user learn which processes are the top resource hogs on their system.
The menu of the jam windicator should show more specific information, such as memory consumption, processor and network usage. It should ideally also let the user set application priority and set bandwidth limits for the software. It is currently possible to set priority in gnome system monitor. It also displays some resource consumption information, but it may be hard for an average user to correlate this with the applications. An example of bandwidth limiting can currently be found in Transmission, which has a "turtle button" for slowing down the downloads. cheers, --Toni _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
