Re: starting applet

[Billie Cleek <cleek csc smsu edu>]

It seems to me that you should list the same processes as would show up if
you did an <alt>+<tab>. Aren't these the processes you really want to
check? Perhaps if a user was root then you'd show more than this....just
my 2 cents.


On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Brian Sea wrote:

> > The task-applet could display the two or four processes eating up the most
> > cpu time, with ability to term/kill them. I think a large starting app
> > would eat up a lot of time.
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
>   I would think you wouldn't want to discrimenate against processes :-).  
> Besides just doing this for *every* process would prolly take less work 
> than finding those that took the most CPU time.
> 
>   Also who's to say that you didn't start enough "big" processes outside
> GNOME to fill up those 2 or 4 spots, that you don't want to show up? Also,
> the applet shows all the applications anyway - the problem is that it
> may not show them early enough so that people can kill these apps before they
> start properly.
> 
> Brian
> sea@umr.edu
> 
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