Bug 184035

Summary:	open full system monitor view (with system load tab) on CTRL+ESC instead of only system activity (processes)
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksysguard	Reporter:	Marcel Partap <mpartap>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aldo-public, johnflux, karaluh, null
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Marcel Partap 2009-02-11 18:58:43 UTC

Version:           4.2.62 (KDE 4.2.62 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090204)) (using 4.2.62 (KDE 4.2.62 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090204)), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.29-rc4

Only part of the users who might be interested in those nice charts will find ksysguard, but many people migrating from win32 know the task manager, which does have the fancy charts. And btw just tried to press CTRL+ALT+DEL that dialog also should have a button for the system monitor, IMHO.

Comment 1 John Tapsell 2009-02-12 02:03:42 UTC

Yeah something like that would be good, but I'm not sure how exactly.  It remains always loaded so that it comes up faster during heavy load.  If I added tabs, they would have to be implemented in a way that added nothing to the resources if not currently being viewed.  Perhaps a module that dynamically loaded when you click the tabs.

Another way to do it would be to have it like in OSX, where you have a small space at the bottom for such graphs.  It looks nice, but very cramped imho.

Comment 2 Unknown 2009-02-22 23:13:40 UTC

I would also like to have full System Monitor w/ graphs shown, instead of the System Activity window, when pressing Ctrl+Esc

Comment 3 Aldoo 2009-03-03 18:33:11 UTC

Doesn't this duplicate bug 173668?

(I really would like to have at least an indication of free memory and free CPU time in the status bar, like in the old days of KDE3!)

Comment 4 karaluh 2009-07-20 15:57:49 UTC

I agree.

Comment 5 John Tapsell 2009-07-20 16:02:36 UTC

Adding free memory etc should be fairly straightforward.  Just a case of adding it.

Launching the full ksysguard isn't an option.  The System Activity needs to be fast and always loaded.

However I've been toying with the idea of adding tabs to the System Activity, and dlopening the required libraries when you click on them and unloading them again when you close it.  Maybe with some javascript support etc or something.

Comment 6 John Tapsell 2009-07-20 17:13:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 173668 ***