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roadmaps:taskmgr [2010/12/05 08:48] – mikeroadmaps:taskmgr [2016/05/24 03:14] (current) – [User Suggestions ;-)] sharky
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 ====== Task Manager ====== ====== Task Manager ======
  
-**Future Goals**+===== Future Goals ===== 
   * <del>Use [[http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/|gksu]] to restart the application as root</del>   * <del>Use [[http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/|gksu]] to restart the application as root</del>
   * <del>A settings dialog</del>   * <del>A settings dialog</del>
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   * Running debugging tools like gdb/nemiver or strace   * Running debugging tools like gdb/nemiver or strace
   * Switch between liststore and treestore   * Switch between liststore and treestore
-  * Add optional monitors for network/disk io/etc+  * 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   * Retrieve application icon/name without windows/without libwnck -- has to work for graphical applications hidding in the background / notification area
  
-**Floating Ideas**+===== Floating Ideas ===== 
   * API changes:   * API changes:
     * Replace ''memory_buffer'' and ''memory_cache'' with ''memory_inactive''     * Replace ''memory_buffer'' and ''memory_cache'' with ''memory_inactive''
     * Add datetime of process execution     * 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   * Update the status icon with a graph
   * Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1 (libwnck)   * 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   * Show CPU usage text "insensitive" when 0% -- makes it easier to distinguish if yes or no a process is using CPU cycles
-  * Display a skull icon in front of uninterruptible disk sleep / daemonized tasks 
   * <del>When terminating a task, unselect the row</del>   * <del>When terminating a task, unselect the row</del>
  
-**Options**+===== Options ===== 
   * <del>Toolbar style with label/icon/both</del>   * <del>Toolbar style with label/icon/both</del>
   * <del>Show/hide application icons</del>   * <del>Show/hide application icons</del>
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   * Allow custom user-settable signals   * Allow custom user-settable signals
  
-**User Suggestions** ;-)+===== 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 (cf [[http://github.com/chergert/uber-graph|uber-graph]])   * Draw multicore and Mem/Swap with several lines on the same graph (cf [[http://github.com/chergert/uber-graph|uber-graph]])
 +  * Allow keyboard shortcuts, possible user-settable, ideally with delete key defaulting to killing selected application.