https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437114
Bug ID: 437114
Summary: Consider Restoring Old System Load Viewer Look and
Function
Product: plasma-systemmonitor
Version: 5.21.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: ksysguard-b...@kde.org
Reporter: gtwilli...@gmail.com
CC: ahiems...@heimr.nl, plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 138430
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=138430&action=edit
old applet
SUMMARY
The System Load Viewer applet was dropped recently from Plasma and it is said
that System Monitor replaces it.
Please consider making System Monitor Sensor:Memory Usage and Individual Core
Usage look and function like the old System Load Viewer.
The new applets are not as compact as the old applet and do not deliver the
same information as the old applet.
The old applet using its "Compact bar", "CPUs separately", and "Set Colors
Manually" settings was compact and information-rich. The CPU bar charts showed
total CPU and application, nice, system, and I/O wait in different colors. The
memory bar showed application, buffers, and cache memory usage in different
colors. Finally, the old applet showed various details in a tabular form in
its tooltip, which was very nice, if patched to be interactive to allow the
user time to take in the detail.
The new applet(s) put space between each bar chart and display a wide bar chart
for the memory usage. This results in about twice as much space being taken
up. There is no information about different memory usage or different CPU
usage using colors. Indeed, the CPU charts are all different colors, providing
no useful information. The tooltip simply displays the applet title -- no
details about the monitored resources.
I am attaching the old applet (in case you want to actually run it to see the
differences above), screen shots of the old monitor, the new monitor, and the
old tooltip.
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