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

[Bernie Innocenti]

Concky looks great, but I thought we could only embed Python code in the
frame.

If a rewrite in Python is required, then we could as well start from
Tincho's original work and improve it. While the happy/sad laptop might
be an over-simplification, opening the palette did reveal real memory
and cpu usage data:

  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png

The lag observed by Iain in updating the data also bothered me. The
stats were being updated every 5 seconds because a reviewer was
concerned about increasing idle power usage. I'd be in favor of
increasing the update frequency and maybe skip the UI updates when the
frame is hidden. The same optimization would benefit all the existing
frame indicators and background updates to the Network view, which take
a ton of CPU time.


On 05/23/2014 04:08 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> +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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Bernie Innocenti
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