Hi Toni ;) On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:54, Toni Ruottu <toni.ruo...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 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. > "frozen" applications turn their windows grey/passive in Compiz. perhaps a Windicator can augment this feature..
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