Re: Sensors Extension.

[Bob Gustafson <bobgus rcn com>]

Perhaps the Gnome developer group has been infiltrated by folks who are
paid to make FOSS look bad?

Just paranoid..

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:14 +0100, Another Sillyname wrote:
> I've just installed Gnome Shell as part of a F15 build, it's the first
> time I've played with it and have pretty much ignored the build up as
> I prefer to judge these things myself.
> 
> While I'm not totally comfortable yet with the changes I'm willing to
> use it for a couple of weeks before making decisions as to whether
> I'll stick with it or not.  I've been using F14 with a Compiz desktop
> for 2-3 years now.
> 
> I've read assorted arguments in assorted threads regarding human
> multitasking capabilities and frankly don't want to get into those
> arguments.
> 
> What I don't understand however is the removal of critical/semi
> critical indicators from the system without any replacement extensions
> being available and if I've read some mailing list threads correctly
> no intention to provide replacements.
> 
> Specifically the removal of the hardware monitoring and CPU, Network
> etc.... monitoring applets I just do not understand the reasoning
> behind.  There is a quantum difference between multi tasking and
> process/activity monitoring.  I've many times been working on one of
> my machines when a panel indicator has drawn my attention to something
> that needed further investigation, sometimes without merit, on a
> couple of occasions it's possibly saved machines.
> 
> There's plenty of space on the top bar to allow them, so what's the logic?
> 
> Also is there a way to change to format of the date/time on the top
> bar?  I prefer to use a 12 hour clock with an am/pm suffix and no
> leading zeros.
> 
> Thanks and I will state I've been impressed with the stability, more
> eye candy would be nice though.
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