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

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 13:27 -0005, Sebastian Silva 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.
> 
Or omit the metaphor as far as possible, and see if we can present the
data collected by the Dextrose method in a non-intrusive way. My
suggestion would be like [1], but probably without any words.

This (edited) image generated by conky with
                ${cpugraph cpu1}
                $membar


Regards,
Iain

[1] http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/membarcpugraph5.php

> 
> 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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