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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Dr. Konqui feature request
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () bucknell ! edu>
Date:       2000-05-19 14:54:12
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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Andreas Pour wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this is a great idea, but wonder if a background process is the
> appropriate place for this.  Would it be better to have a "Dr. Konqi"
> diagnosis icon in the panel and if the user clicks on this he can get
> system information, such as memory usage (which can kill performance
> even more than high CPU usage, esp. when Netscape starts eating 80MB and
> swaps for everything it does), CPU usage, network behavior, disk stats,
> swap stats, etc.  A nice icon of a medical bag would do the trick.

Another thought... Have the medical bag there, but when there is an event 
you might want to notice (NS sucking up too much cpu/mem) display a 
little exclamation point or something near the bag to alert the user.

Just make sure that this little application stays little!  There was once 
a program similar for windows which I used many years ago.. that took 
more resources than the applications I was running!  

-m

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