On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM, John Tapsell <johnf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > For the past 13 years or so, ksysguard has been in KDE under various > names. Right from the beginning it was designed to monitor remote > systems as well as local ones. > > To monitor remote systems, it can connect to a remote machine via > rsh, ssh, etc, and communicate via a very simple plain text protocol. > > However over the years this design has slowly strangled future > development, and has scared off several contributors. People have a > great idea and want to add it, then as I start to explain how they > need to implement it, their eyes get wider as they start to back away > slowly. > > So unless anyone can talk me out of it now, I am going to remove the > ability to monitor remote hosts entirely, and to use one of the many > excellent cross-platform debugged libraries that already exist to > gather system information. > > John
Is there any way to make the monitoring less restrictive without eliminating it entirely? For instance making a new protocol that is able to use information with less restrictions on the data format? -Todd >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
