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Re: [trinity-devel] Different System monitor comparison - New color theme proposed for KSysGuard

From: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@...>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:37:34 +0900
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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

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