-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01/31/2015 11:27 PM, Alexandre wrote: > >>> >> Good point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed colors looks better, although I would make >> the writing a little more visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale background instead of >> white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in? > Yes. From the proposed ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window background gray. > > One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color setting. Also, maybe reverse color (as we see > often for the percent text on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having the scale text at the left of > the graph, instead of in the graph. > > Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the size could be written in GB, not in MB, > since modern computers have much more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't fit mathematically on a > perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2 numbers after the point is enough (as 0,33). > >> >> In general though, I think a rework of the current Ksysguard graph is what is really needed. The ones from KDE4 >> and Gnome looks much better. > They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1 time/second, so it appear to move much more smoothly. > Also, with the speed of modern computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow update. >> >> By the way, your desktop background looks quite nice. Is it possible for you to share it as well? > Of course, here it is: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594 Thanks! > >> Cheers Michele > > I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not always the best OS, I think that Win 8.1 task > manager is very well crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task manager is to be redesigned. It > shows easily all the info I want to see in a task manager, separated by sections for ram, cpu, hdd and network, > while still showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your system. > > Thank you! -Alexandre > I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any comment, otherwise I will push that version. Can you send in the modified files? Cheers Michele -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUzyk+AAoJECp1t8qK3tXPohQP/2HBxr27ScxxRYjajfBej12I azdRZkOsThHbyHx6X1dO6iy3QFN0ctN0/Wgtx5IyXM6E1BbwF0WQU0OGhuwjf8+C mnQka1QlLaWYKZQbN5FtL2RPJh80g5eruItI/MbCfSlrDmnP4OBwmmCF8TBVmJcP h0ZOkHZI8Rsh3LCH42mpjUezY0osJ1HnE7YCtL+HS0EsWjf7xCuU6yaz2Xe8MG70 ab1XZ8AKTT6vC42OkbsA/inUYksNoHSshjJN5B/n8YIZkC73AomESrkgOrxZgu22 3v9DYD69d4oHJmhWO4UDD0pyXTfPpUkcRZC65jraVYOMAbFqHK6NWK43Z7SnOzdY L9goN2vb/fHgqTD2SLczt7qz3gCaNfRUPylx0yPxvx8MshQuoW9neLsKiI5Mb11Q 32uxiEELagdmG5iG4plPtDC7QbRvBFybQEHU3XvXA74D/Cyi1QmDoV+MJmUZeAu/ UGyZ71luknwcvaJMW28KO3ugzwdVaszb+cCY7O34e0vtPkPpZx/2QjpSGa6RBbDE GqDUUFjAErr+5xEvOPUzOdwXI4ODsIYHENVLLRTBrD8weGWYIK476YlAFI7NNZ3D 4kAvrhzhtuwVCdh6vwzgrFXA/0Zyq9OIB9O7uWbqkswVnmglTQYz7UgxfNnAREVF 9fNCQ1XBpbWr69dytI6M =LmJm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----