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

[Walter Bender]

+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> 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > Sugar-devel mailing list
> > Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>



-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/attachments/20140523/14f6cd68/attachment.html>