Good
point, the current colors are really old style IMO. The proposed
colors looks better, although I would make the writing a little more
visible. Another possibility would be to use a slightly pale background
instead of white. Could you try a few variations and sned them in?
Yes. From the proposed ones, the ones I prefer are either white or window
background gray.
One thing: The horizontal lines and the text has only 1 common color
setting. Also, maybe reverse color (as we see often for the percent text
on a progress bar) could be good for the text, or having the scale text
at the left of the graph, instead of in the graph.
Talking about the scales, I think that for the ram and swap graphs, the
size could be written in GB, not in MB, since modern computers have much
more ram than in the past. Also, when scales doesn't fit mathematically
on a perfect number (as 1/3 = 0,333333333), I think that displaying 2
numbers after the point is enough (as 0,33).
In general though, I think a rework of the
current Ksysguard graph is
what is really needed. The ones from KDE4 and Gnome looks much better.
They look better, and they update the graph faster than 1 time/second, so
it appear to move much more smoothly. Also, with the speed of modern
computer, maybe some info is missed because of the slow update.
By the way, your desktop background looks quite
nice. Is it possible for
you to share it as well?
Of course, here it is:
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Country-Road?content=168594 Cheers
Michele
I also post a picture of the Win 8.1 task manager. While Win is not
always the best OS, I think that Win 8.1 task manager is very well
crafted, and could be inspired from if one day TDE's task manager is to
be redesigned. It shows easily all the info I want to see in a task
manager, separated by sections for ram, cpu, hdd and network, while still
showing a little graph of each one, to see easily what happens with your
system.
Thank you! -Alexandre
I think the first version was better, IMO. Let's see if anyone else has any
comment, otherwise I will push that version. Can you send in the modified
files?
Cheers
Michele