Hardware Monitor applet 0.7 released

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

A few misfeatures have managed to sneak past the eyes of the
maintainer of this particular piece of software. In particular, the
implementation of the column diagram viewer was not exactly the most
optimal one.

In other words, this is a bug-fixing release.


What's new:

  - Fixed the performance problem with the column diagram viewer. CPU
    usage back to zero again now. The viewer should also look more
    "stable" due to a neat anti-aliasing effect.

  - Fixed disk usage sometimes reporting the wrong values for disk
    size. Made it report disk usage rather than free disk space.

  - The scales of network monitors watching the same network interface
    are now synchronized (so that e.g. incoming and outgoing data use
    the same scale).


Features:

  - monitor CPU/memory/swap/disk usage, load average, Ethernet/modem
    throughput, internal temperatures, internal fan speeds

  - multiple views that all support multiple monitors:

     o  a curve view with smooth lines
     o  a bar view with wacky horizontal bars
     o  a column view with ultra-clear vertical blocks
     o  a text view for those who want extreme precision
     o  a flame view to impress your friends

  - a modular design for future enhancements

  - well-behaved GNOME panel applet (no floating gkrellm windows)


Version 0.7 can be downloaded from here:

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/

Screenshots are also available from the above page. The applet
requires Gnome 2.2 and the gtkmm and gnomemm-all libraries from
www.gtkmm.org. Note that you need to install libsensors and setup
lm-sensors with your kernel if you want to monitor temperatures and
fan speeds.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/