[Sugar-devel] Happy / Sad laptop system load monitor

[Bernie Innocenti]

Look, even Chrome copied our design to show users that they're opening 
too many tabs! :-)

   http://imgur.com/Ep6VhC0


On 05/23/14 09:50, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Sebastian Silva
> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thans for the archeology Bernie!
>
>     I agree that perhaps happy/sad isn't the proper metaphor. I remember
>     having a similar WindowMaker dockapp, that would show the face from
>     Doom's guy for the same purpose. Not very informative, but fun.
>
>     Now, about this implementation, as i remember, once the palette is
>     open, proper cpu/mem graphs appear. Perhaps we can come up with a
>     less emotionally loaded metaphor.
>
>     I would disagree that user's shouldn't need to know this data, in
>     fact with such a constrained machine as XO it is pretty useful
>     feedback and as I remember it was part of the original Sugar design
>     (it was not in the frame, but in the home view's relative area of
>     use for each active icon).
>
>
> The original Sugar design used a different approach (a circle of
> activities filling up in the center of the home screen). My objection to
> the Smiley implementation was not that users shouldn't need to know
> these data. Rather, not enough information was available and it was
> over-simplifying something complex, masking the inherent complexity.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Sebastian
>
>     El vie, 23 de may 2014 a las 6:08 AM, Walter Bender
>     <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> escribió:
>
>>     +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
>>     <iain at browndouglas.plus.com <mailto:iain at 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
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