[gnome-system-monitor/mallard-help: 18/30] Wrote drafts for process-end-kill, process-kill, and process-status.



commit 4adde0255534f71eb46c7d7779d50684dd82ae16
Author: Kelly Sinnott <ksinnott5ht gmail com>
Date:   Mon Aug 29 10:51:35 2011 -0700

    Wrote drafts for process-end-kill, process-kill, and process-status.

 help/C/process-end-kill.page |   18 ++++++++----------
 help/C/process-kill.page     |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 help/C/process-status.page   |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/process-end-kill.page b/help/C/process-end-kill.page
index 6cf0562..5d7d2f0 100644
--- a/help/C/process-end-kill.page
+++ b/help/C/process-end-kill.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
       type="topic" style="task"
       id="process-end-kill">
   <info>
-    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-19" status="stub"/>
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-28" status="review"/>
     <link type="guide" xref="index" group="processes-info" />
 
     <credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@
       <email>philbull gmail com</email>
       <years>2011</years>
     </credit>
-
-    <desc>XXXXX</desc>
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Kelly Sinnott</name>
+      <email>ksinnott5ht gmail com</email>
+      <years>2011</years>
+    </credit>
+    <desc>End and Kill are different ways to make a process stop running.</desc>
   </info>
 
   <title>What is the difference between End and Kill?</title>
@@ -21,12 +25,6 @@
     <p>Explain the different ways of killing a process.</p>
   </comment>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
-
-  <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
-  </steps>
+<p>The menu that shows up when you click a process contains both <gui>End Process</gui> and <gui>Kill 
Process.</gui> <gui>End Process</gui> tries to end the process as the programmer intended, using the built in 
"quit" or "exit" function. <gui>Kill Process</gui> forces the process to close immediately, and should be 
used only if <gui>End Process</gui> does not work.</p>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/process-kill.page b/help/C/process-kill.page
index 3cbb733..5dcc361 100644
--- a/help/C/process-kill.page
+++ b/help/C/process-kill.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
       type="topic" style="task"
       id="process-kill">
   <info>
-    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-19" status="stub"/>
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-28" status="review"/>
     <link type="guide" xref="index" group="processes-tasks" />
 
     <credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
       <email>philbull gmail com</email>
       <years>2011</years>
     </credit>
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Kelly Sinnott</name>
+      <email>ksinnott5ht gmail com</email>
+      <years>2011</years>
+    </credit>
 
     <desc>If an application won't close normally or stops responding, you might want to "kill" it.</desc>
   </info>
@@ -21,12 +26,19 @@
     <p>Explain how to kill a program, and why you might want to do that.</p>
   </comment>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
+  <p>If a program has frozen and it will not allow you to close it, you may want to end or kill that program 
using <app>System Monitor</app>.</p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item><p>Click the <gui>Processes</gui> tab.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Find the process you would like to kill.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Press the <gui>End Process</gui> button in the lower right of the window.</p></item>
+  </steps>
 
+<p>If the <gui>End Process</gui> button fails the stop the program, you may wish to kill the process as 
follows:</p>
   <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
+    <item><p>Right click on the process you would like to kill.</p></item>
+    <item><p>Select <gui>Kill Process</gui> from the menu.</p></item>
   </steps>
 
+<note><p><gui>Kill Process</gui> forces the process to close immediately, without bringing the program to a 
natural end. It should be used only if <gui>End Process</gui> does not work.</p></note>
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/process-status.page b/help/C/process-status.page
index 05a834c..47195c7 100644
--- a/help/C/process-status.page
+++ b/help/C/process-status.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
       type="topic" style="task"
       id="process-status">
   <info>
-    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-19" status="stub"/>
+    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-08-28" status="review"/>
     <link type="guide" xref="index" group="processes-info" />
 
     <credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,8 +10,13 @@
       <email>philbull gmail com</email>
       <years>2011</years>
     </credit>
+    <credit type="author copyright">
+      <name>Kelly Sinnott</name>
+      <email>ksinnott5ht gmail com</email>
+      <years>2011</years>
+    </credit>
 
-    <desc>XXXXX</desc>
+    <desc>The status of a process can be running, sleeping, stopped, or zombie.</desc>
   </info>
 
   <title>What do the process statuses mean?</title>
@@ -21,12 +26,29 @@
     <p>Briefly explain the different statuses a process can have.</p>
   </comment>
 
-  <p>Short introductory text...</p>
+  <p>The <gui>Status</gui> column for a process provides information on the state of the process. The 
possible states for a process are:</p>
+
+<table shade="rows">
+  <tr>
+       <td><p>Running</p></td>
+       <td><p>A process that is <gui>Running</gui> is actively executing its code. For example, when your 
browser is open and accessing a webpage, the browser process is running. </p></td>
+
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+       <td><p>Sleeping</p></td>
+       <td><p>If a process is <gui>Sleeping</gui>, this means that it is not being executed and is currently 
waiting for an event from the user or the system to wake it up. This allows the process to be ready to 
execute without using up resources.</p></td>
+       </tr>
+  <tr>
+       <td><p>Stopped</p></td>
+       <td><p>A process can be stopped manually by right-clicking it and selecting <gui>Stop Process</gui>. 
This puts it in a state similar to sleep. It can be resumed with <gui>Continue Process</gui>.</p>
+       </td>
+  </tr>
 
-  <steps>
-    <item><p>First step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
-    <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
-  </steps>
+  <tr>
+       <td><p>Zombie</p></td>
+       <td><p>A Zombie process has been killed or otherwise has stopped running. It can't be killed because 
the process can no longer receive the "kill signal." All that is left is for the system to clean up the 
remnants of the process in memory.  </p>
+       </td>
+   </tr>
+</table>
 
 </page>


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