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

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

I will make the patchs for the new Sugar when I get sugar-build working!

Thanks :)

Ignacio Rodríguez
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2014-05-22 22:23 GMT-03:00 Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>:

> On 05/22/2014 03:39 PM, 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.
>
> The "laptop avatar" feature was controversial: the main objection I
> remember hearing was that the UI shouldn't be cluttered with low-level
> information that users shouldn't be concerned about.
>
> More interestingly, field testing in Uruguay revealed that users were
> sometimes using the feature in an unintended way: they'd purposely open
> as many activities as possible to "make the laptop cry"! Such cruelty...
> :-)
>
> Anyway, the smarter fix for system overload is automatically limiting
> the number of activities open at once, which recent versions of Sugar do.
>
> If you're still interested, the original patch was pretty simple and
> might still apply cleanly to the current Sugar:
>
>
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/patches/0.88/sugar/cpu-and-memory-resource-indicator.patch
>
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/patches/0.88/sugar-artwork/cpu-and-memory-indicator-icons.patch
>
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