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 ====== Task Manager ====== ====== Task Manager ======
-===== ===== 
-**Future Goals** 
-  * <del>Use [[http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/|gksu]] to restart the application as root;</del> 
-  * 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 optional monitors for network/disk io/etc; 
-  * Retrieve application icon/name without windows. 
  
-===== ===== +===== Future Goals ===== 
-**Floating Ideas**+ 
 +  * <del>Use [[http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/|gksu]] to restart the application as root</del> 
 +  * <del>A settings dialog</del> 
 +  * 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:   * API changes:
-    * Replace ''memory_buffer'' and ''memory_cache'' with ''memory_inactive''; +    * Replace ''memory_buffer'' and ''memory_cache'' with ''memory_inactive'' 
-    * New function pid_is_running() to show running tasks with a yellow background; +    * Add datetime of process execution 
-    * New function pid_is_zombi() to show tasks gray on black; +    * 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; +  * Update the status icon with a graph 
-  * Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1; +  * Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1 (libwnck) 
-  * Display a skull icon in front of uninterruptible disk sleep tasks (in casual word daemonized); +  * Show CPU usage text "insensitive" when 0% -- makes it easier to distinguish if yes or no a process is using CPU cycles 
-  * Show CPU usage text "insensitive" when 0% -- makes it easier to distinguish if yes or no a process is using CPU cycles. +  * <del>When terminating a task, unselect the row</del> 
-===== ===== + 
-**Options** +===== Options ===== 
-  * Toolbar style with label/icon/both; + 
-  * Show/hide application icons; +  * <del>Toolbar style with label/icon/both</del> 
-  * Don't ask for sending signals; +  * <del>Show/hide application icons</del> 
-  * Draw monitors without borders (gtk_paint_box). +  * <del>Prompt for terminating tasks</del> 
-===== ===== +  * <del>Draw monitors without borders (gtk_paint_box)</del> 
-**User Suggestions**+  * Allow custom user-settable signals 
 + 
 +===== User Suggestions ;-) ===== 
   * <del>Add a text entry to filter tasks</del>   * <del>Add a text entry to filter tasks</del>
     * 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     * 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. +  * Draw multicore and Mem/Swap with several lines on the same graph (cf [[http://github.com/chergert/uber-graph|uber-graph]]) 
-    * Investigate this: http://github.com/chergert/uber-graph+  * Allow keyboard shortcuts, possible user-settable, ideally with delete key defaulting to killing selected application.