[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Displaying the current status of system resources (such as memory, cpu)

[Martin Abente]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:31:08 -0400, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
wrote:
> So, to keep the code and the UI simple enough, I'd propose starting with
> a very basic chip icon, whose palette would display two gauges
> representing an approximation of free memory and free cpu, computed
> from /proc/meminfo and /proc/loadavg, like free(1) and uptime(1) do.
>
> Any further refinement could come later, if someone finds the time and
> motivation. If we come up with extravagant solutions now, chances are
> good that nobody will do it and we won't have anything in time for the
> next release.

+1

Lets start with something simple, functional and do-able. That actually
helps kids in this life time :)

Would be great to have a catchy icon, that can represent the system's
"tiredness" (load), any ideas?