Task Manager
Future Goals
Use
gksu
to restart the application as root
A settings dialog
A properties dialog to inspect processes with information like
lsof
Running debugging tools like gdb/nemiver or strace
Switch between liststore and treestore
Add a menu bar (optional Ctrl+M)
Menu item to switch to another view with monitors for network/disk io/etc
Retrieve application icon/name without windows/without libwnck – has to work for graphical applications hidding in the background / notification area
Floating Ideas
API
changes:
Replace
memory_buffer
and
memory_cache
with
memory_inactive
Add datetime of process execution
Add pid_is_daemon() in order to display a skull icon in front of uninterruptible disk sleep / daemonized tasks
Update the status icon with a graph
Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1 (libwnck)
Show CPU usage text “insensitive” when 0% – makes it easier to distinguish if yes or no a process is using CPU cycles
When terminating a task, unselect the row
Options
Toolbar style with label/icon/both
Show/hide application icons
Prompt for terminating tasks
Draw monitors without borders (gtk_paint_box)
Allow custom user-settable signals
User Suggestions ;-)
Add a text entry to filter tasks
It is already possible to type in the tree view and type up/down arrows to jump from one task to another, which is more than enough
Draw multicore and Mem/Swap with several lines on the same graph (cf
uber-graph
)
Allow keyboard shortcuts, possible user-settable, ideally with delete key defaulting to killing selected application.