Hardware Monitor applet 0.5 released

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Friends,

A man walks along the road. I stop by him. He says, "The road is long
and the stones are plentiful". He also says, "The flames warm my
heart. But the curves are jumpy. The bars are too boring. And the
texts ridden with bugs." He raises his eyebrow. I nod. He says, "Go
fix these things and tell gnome-announce about it."


What's new:

  - made the curve and the bar viewer update themselves continuously
    instead of in small jumps

  - broke the bars into little boxes which look much neater

  - fixed some of the issues with the text viewer

  - fixed crash with the temperature monitor

  - renice to 10 to prevent stealing CPU time when it is needed

  - some other bug fixes


Features:

  - monitor CPU/memory/swap/disk usage, load average, Ethernet/modem
    throughput, CPU temperature

  - multiple views that all support multiple monitors:

   o  a curve view with smooth lines
   o  a bar view with wacky horizontal bars
   o  a text view for those who want extreme precision
   o  a flame view to impress your friends

  - a modular design for future enhancements

  - well-behaved GNOME panel applet (no floating gkrellm-windows)

  - a Danish translation


Version 0.5 can be downloaded from here:

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/

Screenshots are also available from the above page. The applet
requires Gnome 2.2 and the gtkmm and gnomemm-all libraries from
www.gtkmm.org.

Note that you need to install libsensors and setup lm-sensors with
your kernel if you want to monitor the CPU temperature. Also, the
lm-sensors support is still a little inflexible and will sometimes
show the system board temperature instead of the CPU temperature.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/