There is a proposed design: (no attribution as it's not clear who made this)
How can you get involved?
If you have some coding skills, then consider making a patch to fix this! This is a well-defined feature request, and should be relatively easy to get to work. Here's how:
- Comment on the bug that you are interested in working on this. Ideally the GNOME System Monitor developers will be able to help you, but I am also watching the bug and willing to help out.
- Get the dependencies required to build the GNOME System Monitor. On Ubuntu this is as easy as: sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-system-monitor.
- Check out the upstream: git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-system-monitor.
- Build and test it: ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/install ; make ; make install ; ./install/bin/gnome-system-monitor.
- Make some changes and repeat from step 4 until everything works.
- When you are done, do a git commit -a; git format-patch origin and attach the patch to the bug report.
8 comments:
I just visited brainstorm.ubuntu.com for the first time.
This site has 19672 ideas, 1 of which was implemented during the past 3 development cycles and none of which is currently being worked on. Is there anything but wishful thinking going on there?
Thanks for transmiting the feedback from Ubuntu to upstream GNOME
I like the way you present this fairly easy task since this makes it very easy for beginners to get involved.
As for Brainstorm its a platform to get ideas and I'm sure there it had more results than just one thing. But the administration is quite hard! and as far as I know they simply have a huge lack of admins.
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Yes.. looks like it's a dump for ideas that no one cares about, except statistics of course..
Isn't most of that stuff already available by way of Edit->Preferences->Processes(tab) Information Fields ?
Darn, almost had a patch in, but someone posted a patch that was just about the same just before I could. XD
I guess it's just as well, though, since I don't really know what I'm doing.
No, it's just people not marking enough ideas as implemented or in progress.
Brainstorm does have a lot of silly stuff, and a lot of wishful fire-and-forget feedback that's not really useful.
But...it also has a lot of interesting concepts that the author simply need some mentoring on. It's also (unintentionally) a mechanism for feedback from users.
If we can get more moderators and mentors for reporting bugs, creating patches, etc. we may actually have a kickin' community there.
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