Re: [gnome-love] Intrested in hacking gnome and doing gtop tree

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

Lots of deletia; I came late to the thread, sorry. 

Someone (and I have wrecked the attributions) said:

> > On Fri Jun  8 16:11:13 2001 Sebastian Kapp said...
> > > On 05 Jun 2001 12:25:18 +1200, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> > > > Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> > > > >  I agree that simplicity would be key here. After all I basically use
> > > > > gtop to see which process is consuming 99% cpu and kill it.
> > > >
> > > > KDE actually has a little applet now which notifies you if there is a
> > > > program consuming excess resources (e.g. 99% CPU) for an extended period of
> > > > time, and asks you if you want to kill it or not (it also tells you though
> > > > that it might be performing a useful function).  Something like this could
> > > > be quite handy as an option, although I know most current Unix users
> > > > wouldn't use it.
> > >
> > > I like the idea, so I wrote a little applet that does exactly that.
> > > Well, trys to do, at least. I've got two problems:
>
> I like the idea, but there might be an easier way. Instead of having a
> list of needed applications, in the applet there's the option to only
> care about own processes. Unless you're root, you can't kill other
> processes anyway.
>
> BTW, I still don't know how to compile that thing. Can someone be so
> kind and answer that part of my mail?

You all might be interested in 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15707
              Product - Version Component Status Short Summary
     gnome-applets - unspecified general NEW RFE: Applet for monitoring
                        login's, load, su's, etc...

(Apologies for formatting, lynx isn't good with tables :))

Some of his suggestions are a different UI altogether, but the general
idea seems the same..

Telsa