On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Robert Roth <robert.roth....@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > Matthias Clasen (mclasen) asked me to write and let you know that I will > be taking over the maintenance of libgtop. > > libgtop is the library used by System Monitor and Control Center (if you > are a developer of an application using libgtop, please let me know) to > query system information, but unfortunately the development has stalled, > the last release has happened in 2011, almost two years ago. > > My goals for the 3.12 cycle (as we're getting close to the 3.9 freeze, > only for the next cycle) are to review the buglist of the module, and > extend it to provide library support for various gnome-system-monitor > enhancement requests, but in the meantime keep it simple and fast enough to > back the upcoming Usage application. > > Thanks for reading, > I was trying to hack on the libgtop code a little while ago, and I just found it hard to hack on. The code was generated, and it seemed to be put together by this giant mess of perl scripts. So, I wonder if it makes sense to stop generating libgtop and instead just focus on a solid, easily understood codebase. I never really understood why we had a client/daemon split, either; it doesn't seem that we're doing anything too fancy on either side. Is it that we require root for reading some of the files? Should we move to a system DBus service instead? The other thing is that libgtop seems to be munging a lot of procfs files. I wonder if it'or something (completely made up example). s possible to investigate new kernel APIs or make ones so that instead of looking for "MemTotal:" in /proc/meminfo, we could just read /proc/mem/memtotal Robert > -- > Robert Roth > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Jasper
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