On 2/21/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > System Monitor, as I see it on my screen, occupies about 30% of the
> > area of a 1024x768 display. At most 20% of that space has useful
> > information, the rest is useless display overhead.
>
> I thought you wanted a task bar app. When I run System Monitor or
> System Guard they only take about 2% of screen real estate. (If I
> calculate correctly.) In the task bar.
>
> > So where do I find the worksheet and how do I use it? Documentation?
>
> I don't know. Sorry.
>
> > Back in the really olden days, I could watch the blinkenlights.
>
> You still are, Carl. They've slowly hypnotized you and you've been
> imagining the past 30-some years. One of these imagined days you're
> going to suddenly snap back to reality and realize it's still 1973!
You understand, I hope, that there are two different KDE applications
under consideration here. One produces a rather large window on the
main desktop, and wastes most of that area with irrelevant stuff. The
other produces (at least so far as I can tell) two smaller task-bar
displays. One of these days I will find out how to configure what is
shown in the task bar. Your initial hints led me to the desktop
application, not the task bar one.
People who design this kind of application should read Edward Tufte's
by-now classic work, _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_
(1983). A more recent work, which came to me by KPLUG raffle, is
_Information Dashboard Design_, Stephen Few, O'Reilly 2006, which
follows many of Tufte's ideas in the context of computer screen
displays.
carl
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