I see. I haven't been using compiz, as some of the effects seem distracting. The alt+tab visualization was the killer iirc, as it slowed down jumping between windows. I also do not have the required computational power on all of my systems, and I occasionally needed some features from Xmonad. Jumping between Metacity and Xmonad seemed to work better, than jumping between Compiz and Xmonad. I don't think any of these inconveniences was on purpose, and I see no reason why they wouldn't get fixed as hardware and software mature.
I think graying out the window is already quite good. Despite not using compiz every day, I've seen this happen. I just want to point out that the jam windicator would not only show jamming, but make the process specific section of gnome-system-manager irrelevant. There may also be other similar functionalities like bandwidth limitations, which are similar. It may be useful to recognize that the jam windicator would not make the whole gnome-system-manager obsolete, as it also show system wide information. What should be done with rest of the functionalities, remains open for discussion. The system wide graphs help user to find the bottle neck of the system. I'm not sure this is something normal users are expected to do. Currently gnome-system-manager has four tabs, and I'm not sure if any of these actually belong together. The system tab represents usefull information about the system, but I doubt this is the place where users would look to find such information. The second tab shows stuff that might be better served by windicators, as it is all application specific information. Ofcourse the tableview allows one to order by column to find resource hogs, so that might be something worth keeping. The resource tab is clearly useful and should be kept in some form. I do wonder, why it is lacking a load graph. Finally, the file systems tab shows some usefull information about disks, but again I wonder if this is the place where users look for that kind of information. We also have a "Disk Utility". That seems like a better place for this kind of information. --Toni On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Toni ;) > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:54, Toni Ruottu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hello >> >> Excuse me for not following the windicator discussion earlier too >> closely. I just read about the planned categories, and wanted to point >> out that the list is lacking a resource consumption management >> category, or jam windicator as I'd call it. The icon should show >> whether or not the relevant process is causing the system to jam at >> the moment. Displaying this information would help user learn which >> processes are the top resource hogs on their system. >> >> The menu of the jam windicator should show more specific information, >> such as memory consumption, processor and network usage. It should >> ideally also let the user set application priority and set bandwidth >> limits for the software. It is currently possible to set priority in >> gnome system monitor. It also displays some resource consumption >> information, but it may be hard for an average user to correlate this >> with the applications. An example of bandwidth limiting can currently >> be found in Transmission, which has a "turtle button" for slowing down >> the downloads. > > "frozen" applications turn their windows grey/passive in Compiz. > perhaps a Windicator can augment this feature.. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
