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

[Sebastian Silva]

El vie, 23 de may 2014 a las 8:50 AM, Walter Bender 
<walter.bender at gmail.com> escribió:
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> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Sebastian Silva 
> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
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>> 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).
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> The original Sugar design used a different approach (a circle of 
> activities filling up in the center of the home screen). My objection 
> to the Smiley implementation was not that users shouldn't need to 
> know these data. Rather, not enough information was available and it 
> was over-simplifying something complex, masking the inherent 
> complexity. 

I meant to reply to bernie's email, but I replied to yours instead, so 
my response was about his comments. I agree with you, a system load 
monitor that doesn't distinguishes between memory depletion and busy 
cpu is pretty useless.
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