Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 19:49 +0200, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > System Monitor
> > 	Keep
> 
> I have what I believe is a much better implementation of this:
> 
>   http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/
> 
> Cleaner interface, more polished graphs, much smoother updating. It
> can monitor the same thing that system-monitor can monitor plus CPU
> temperature with libsensors. It can monitor multiple things in the
> same applet. Multiple viewers, curves, columns, bars, plain text, a
> l33t flame effect.
> 
> It is written with gtkmm, though. But everytime I start
> system-monitor, I'm amazed how ugly it is. :-) Perhaps it is about
> time it got replaced?
> 
> If you're on Debian, try "apt-get install hardware-monitor".

(Or ubuntu, indeed.)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Mmmm. MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. For sheer
silliness, set it to flames and monitor different things in different 
colours - that *is* cool!

--
Andrew