Tray icon for CPU load: display number instead of graph

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What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.0 on Windows 7 64-bit (SP1).

Currently, when I select "Show in Tray" for "CPU Total", it displays total CPU 
load as a graph. Some other options are displayed in tray as numbers.

I wish I could choose to display total CPU load as a number.

Why?
With many cores, it is becoming impossible to see the difference on the tiny 
graph when only one CPU core becomes loaded. In most cases, only one core 
becomes loaded and this event should be well visible for users.
If it would be displayed as percentage number instead, it would be obvious and 
readable when one core is loaded, and also in all other situations.

Here is the idea:
1. Add an option to display CPU Total as a percentage number.
2. If other users like the graph, maybe make it so the user can choose either 
the number or graph?
3. As there is not much space to display the number, maybe make the display 
only show strings between "0" and "99". This means only two characters need to 
be displayed. The number stays big and well readable. Users can be aware that 
99 can also mean 100%, but I think nobody would make a big deal of this - 
better have bigger readable numbers than room for 100, which practically never 
occurs anyway on modern CPUs with many cores.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ccomplet...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2013 at 9:40

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I must agree. Having the option to display numbers instead of graphs for tray 
icons would make these icons much more useful for those with high resolution 
settings and hence small tray icons (or just not great eyesight). In 
particular, I would use the Load/CPU Total and Load/Memory icons if they had 
this feature.  Right now, I use OHM for a few tray icons and use other software 
to display the memory (MemInfo) and cpu (CPUmon)info. The attached image shows 
my tray with CPUmon on the left, then OHM cpu fan, then OHM cpu temp, and 
finally on the right MemInfo.  All very easy to read.

Original comment by MW2...@gmail.com on 17 May 2014 at 7:01

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