Re: Announce: gnome-utils/mini-utils/guname now use libgtop

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> To: "David [ISO-8859-1] Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: Re: Announce: gnome-utils/mini-utils/guname now use libgtop
> From: Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu>
> 
> 
> On 23 Aug 1998, David [ISO-8859-1] Kågedal wrote:
> > 
> > It should be reorganized.  Here are my thoughts:
> > 
> >  * The initial window should contain only very basic information. OS,
> >    distribution, maybe memory size
> >
> 
> This is what it has now, no?
>  
> >  * There should be a lot more information available through this
> >    window.  
> 
> Which window? It isn't clear to me what you mean by "this."
> 
> > The rest of the stuff, including the disk info which is
> >    today mysteriously hidden under the third mouse button.  Also other
> >    information, like multi-CPU status, disks etc.  All this should not
> >    be put in a "GNOME About" window.
> >
> 
> So you think two separate applications?

multi-CPU status, disks etc. probably belong in GTop.

Well, multi-CPU status - as soon as our two-processor machine at the
university is repaired I think I'll add multi-CPU status to libgtop,
so we can use it in GTop.

>  
> >  * I should be more portable.  I started rewriting stuff in guname to
> >    use sysinfo() instead of uname(), which gave more information on
> >    Solaris, but then I realized that libgtop was not yet ported to
> >    Solaris, so I sort of left it.
> > 
> 
> This is basically a libgtop issue. guname will just report on things
> libgtop or Posix/Unix98 provide.
> 
> It should be fairly portable now, I think all the system calls are
> Posix/Unix98. It does try to determine if it's on a Debian box but behaves
> gracefully if it isn't. I would like to have checks for other Linux dists
> and other OS's, too, hopefully as much as possible at runtime.
> 
> > How about a notebook type window?
> > 
> 
> I don't like that for the main window; the "Detailed" window already is a
> notebook IIRC. 
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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