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

[Sebastian Silva]

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).

Regards,
Sebastian 

El vie, 23 de may 2014 a las 6:08 AM, Walter Bender 
<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> 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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