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paradoxxxzero / gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet

Display system informations in gnome shell status bar, such as memory usage, cpu usage, network rates…
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LED type blink display for disk #333

Open rickysarraf opened 7 years ago

rickysarraf commented 7 years ago

Thanks for this wonderful extension.

For disk, you already have good reporting along with Reads and Writes. Would it be possible to add a "Display Style" of type 'LED' ?

When selected, this could show red/green color blinks (dot) for disk activity. This will be nice, as well as essential for modern laptops that ship with out any hardware led for disks.

rickysarraf commented 7 years ago

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I'm trying to play with and understand the shell extensions and JS. What I'm suggesting is something like in the screenshot. The dots next to R and W could work as LED. They need to blink and have color codes. Red for Write and Green/Cyan for Read

rickysarraf commented 7 years ago

I also cut out the 'MiB/s' diskunits text because it was consuming way too much of the precious top bar space.

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rickysarraf commented 7 years ago

I hope you won't mind me asking a generic question here. From a power saving point of view, is this extension resource hungry ?

I see you have defined Refresh Time for each components. As I see it, are you reading those file every "refreshTime" intervals ? In that case, will it hurt power savings in general.