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 optional monitors for network/disk io/etc
• Retrieve application icon/name without windows/without libwnck
• Allow custom user-settable signals

Floating Ideas

• API changes:
  • Replace memory_buffer and memory_cache with memory_inactive
  • New function pid_is_running() to show running tasks with a yellow background
  • New function pid_is_zombi() to show tasks gray on black
• Update the status icon with a graph
• Application actions “Bring to front” and so on with an optional dialog for n_window > 1
• 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

Options

• Toolbar style with label/icon/both
• Show/hide application icons
• Prompt for terminating tasks
• Draw monitors without borders (gtk_paint_box)

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)