Bug 357633

Summary:	CPU load monitor has no scale annotation
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	MikeC <mike.cloaked>
Component:	systemloadviewer	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description MikeC 2016-01-06 21:44:35 UTC

The cpu load monitor appears to have no vertical scale markers or numbers. There is an instantaneous indication for each core but to understand what the cores are doing it is necessary to also have a vertical scale.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put CPU load monitor onto the desktop
2. Note display on monitor widget
3.

Actual Results:  
CPU load shows instantaneous values for each core but there is no vertical scale as used to be the case previously for KDE4.

Expected Results:  
CPU load shows graphically without vertical scale

CPU load should have a vertical graph scale either for sufficiently large size on the screen or by a selectable switch in the settings.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2016-10-19 11:52:39 UTC

It's between 0 and 100. A vertical scale would make no sense.

Comment 2 MikeC 2016-10-19 13:41:10 UTC

If the plot is scaled to the highest point in the current range then 0 to 100 does indeed make sense - but if say there is a period of a few seconds when the download speed was say 12Mb/s but then falls to 0.1Mb/s for the next few minues, then the instantaneous download speed would show the 0.1Mb/s but you would not know what the peak download rate was during a transfer of interest even though the peak would still be on the graph, unless you watched the rate indication as the peak went through.  In that case showing the actual rate that corresponds to 100 would help a lot in understanding what the peak was showing.

Comment 3 MikeC 2016-10-19 13:42:34 UTC

Sorry - my last comment related to a network download widget and not a CPU widget - so please ignore my last comment #2 - your are right that for CPU load 0 to 100 is perfectly sensible.

Comment 4 MikeC 2016-10-19 13:45:38 UTC

Apologies for the noise