Re: Announce: gnome-utils/mini-utils/guname now use libgtop

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

On 23 Aug 1998, David [ISO-8859-1] Kågedal wrote:

> To: Gnome Mailing List <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: Announce: gnome-utils/mini-utils/guname now use libgtop
> From: "David [ISO-8859-1] Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
> 
> Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes:
> 
> >   To get the `Detailed Information ..' dialog one needs to click
> >   on some of the items with the right mouse button. When I look
> >   at other GNOME applications, clicking with the right mouse
> >   button on a list item normally means a menu with stuff specific
> >   to the list item you clicked on pops up (see gtop, right click on
> >   a process and the menu let you do things with this process).
> > 
> >   Also, I remember that when I first used guname I didn't get the
> >   `Detailed Information ..' dialog until you told me about it and
> >   I looked at the code since I did not get the idea to right-click
> >   on any of the list items. This may also fool new users.
> > 
> >   So shouldn't we add some button or even make a double-click work,
> >   so anyone seeing this program the first time knows that there is
> >   a `Detailed Information ..' dialog ?
> 
> It should be reorganized.  Here are my thoughts:
> 
>  * The initial window should contain only very basic information. OS,
>    distribution, maybe memory size
> 
>  * There should be a lot more information available through this
>    window.  The rest of the stuff, including the disk info which is
>    today mysteriously hidden under the third mouse button.  Also other
>    information, like multi-CPU status, disks etc.  All this should not
>    be put in a "GNOME About" window.
> 
>  * I should be more portable.  I started rewriting stuff in guname to
>    use sysinfo() instead of uname(), which gave more information on
>    Solaris, but then I realized that libgtop was not yet ported to
>    Solaris, so I sort of left it.

Well, we should probably use libgtop for the uname()/sysinfo() stuff
to keep it really portable.

I think, I'll start fixing the SunOS port of libgtop (which already worked
some time in the past) - unfortunably I don't have a Solaris machine
to do the Solaris port myself, so I'll need someone doing this.

Martin

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