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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Toni ;)

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:54, Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu@xxxxxx> wrote:

>  hello
>
> Excuse me for not following the windicator discussion earlier too
> closely. I just read about the planned categories, and wanted to point
> out that the list is lacking a resource consumption management
> category, or jam windicator as I'd call it. The icon should show
> whether or not the relevant process is causing the system to jam at
> the moment. Displaying this information would help user learn which
> processes are the top resource hogs on their system.
>
> The menu of the jam windicator should show more specific information,
> such as memory consumption, processor and network usage. It should
> ideally also let the user set application priority and set bandwidth
> limits for the software. It is currently possible to set priority in
> gnome system monitor. It also displays some resource consumption
> information, but it may be hard for an average user to correlate this
> with the applications. An example of bandwidth limiting can currently
> be found in Transmission, which has a "turtle button" for slowing down
> the downloads.
>

"frozen" applications turn their windows grey/passive in Compiz.
perhaps a Windicator can augment this feature..