Re: [e-users] [E-devel] E polish + flat

Carsten Haitzler ha scritto il 31/03/21 alle 12:50:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:39:06 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> said:
> 
>> Really nice work, thanks :)
>>
>> What i'm missing now is monitoring icons, as it looks like the sysinfo
>> module was dropped. The extra modules cpu mem and net still builds even
>> with latest git, if i had graphic skills i would commit flat icons to
>> make them look nice with the new theme.
> 
> There is a longer term plan for this. It's on the TODO:
> 
> * back-end e system process for monitoring/polling and launching etc.
>    * split e up into front vs back-end with back-end doing things like
>      * monitoring processes/system (see above)
>      * launching apps (cheaper to fork a small process)
> 
> there are multiple reasons enlightenment_system is now an uber "single process"
> to handle privileged things. it is aimed to also eventually run all this
> monitoring. basically imagine like an htop always running and logging
> everything to a compact log file. the idea is then that all these meters just
> stream from the log file and watch changes - but you can go back in time to see
> "what happened 30 seconds ago when i saw my cpu spike and everything got slow?"
> - it is over now and whatever caused it has stopped... so you missed it. the
> log will then hold this. the idea is logs will not be infinite - but go back
> maybe an hour or a day - some configurable amount.
> 
> some things require root to monitor/look at ... one i really want to do is have
> a "active page" map for processes. it's not cheap so it will need to be turned
> on "on demand" but it is possible in linux so mark pages as soft-dirty then if
> the process access the page the bit is cleared... if you regularly mark all
> pages in a process as soft dirty... then scan to see which have bits cleared
> you can get a map of the active memory of a process - at least on a page basis.
> you can see which memory areas are hot or cold. it' a geeky developer thing,
> but offering a visual memory map with colors showing which mem areas are
> active (imagine  1 pixel per page and they glow white then fade down to yellow,
> orange, red, purple, blue then black as they become less active). so
> process/app details can show this alow with perhaps some list of threads and
> how busy each thread is and what cores each thread is on at the time etc. ...
> 
> that's what i am dreaming of anyway. imagine every window just has a little
> menu entry in the border menu with "process details" ... and it brings up this
> dialog with lots of details on what is running where etc. within that app (if
> it has child processes like a terminal show those too in some tree setup).
> 
> of course system-wide cpu usage and mem usage will be a bi-product of the
> above. also add in i/o usage (imagine the per-process view can show you which
> files that process has open and which ones it is actively reading/writing and
> how much...). imagine another panel which has a list of network addresses that
> that process is talking to (if any). even a map of the globe with little dots
> of light glowing for the geo-location of every ip it accesses? (with the circle
> growing as it accesses more data and changing color based on more upload or
> download). i imagine it'll be an eye-opener to see just what your apps are
> accessing in terms of network, disk, cpu and memory...
> 
> there is a lot of statistical data buried in a modern kernel. lots of it.

It would be great, nice to hear it! Well, so it is just a matter of 
patience, in the meantime i'll stick to extra modules :)

>> Massimo Maiurana
>>
>> Carsten Haitzler ha scritto il 30/03/21 alle 21:48:
>>> In case people haven't tried but want an idea of what things look like:
>>>
>>> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-60637a8f7ec119.02647143.png
>>>
>>> I have polished up emixer and the mixer module a bit, added icons for sinks
>>> with the new sink icons rules, added VU meters to inputs/outputs/playback
>>> streams.
>>>
>>> If you haven't tried e for a while. bluez5 support is there and it's very
>>> polished. the popup does almost everything you need fro pairing, unpairing,
>>> forcing a connect. setting a device to always connect, to set a bt device
>>> to a lock/unlock device (if bt device can be pinged, e is unlocked, if it
>>> cant be pinged again for a little while, e auto-locks itself - handy to
>>> pair your phone and set it as an unlock device - walk away from your pc and
>>> it just locks). Bluez5 will also show battery status of bt devices that
>>> advertise this (like wireless bt kbds/mice).
>>>
>>> The battery module now has a useful full details popup for all your
>>> batteries too thanks to netstar.
>>>
>>> Music control talks to more mpris clients and now has an auto-detect logic
>>> to find one. it supports album art and blayback position/status if the mpris
>>> player supports it, so it works fully with rage, and with spotify you get
>>> the album art and play/pause/prev/next but spotify doesn't advertise play
>>> position updates. it also has a bug with the linux client with the album
>>> art urls - so i added a fix/workaround just for spotify as they seem to be
>>> uninterested in fixing it given the bug reports i read. this meant adding
>>> http fetch support to get the album art too. Music control will handle
>>> chromium (e.g. youtube too).
>>>
>>> Temperature now supports proper hwmon sensors. you can now add multiple temp
>>> gadgets each watching a different temp sensor (just configure each to be a
>>> different one), so e.g. you can monitor your cpu separately to gpu.
>>>
>>> winlist (the list of windows when you alt-tab) now has a "large mode" (in
>>> settings - it's the new default mode too). large mode is much like exposé.
>>> lots of large window previews. alt+tab brings this up by default. if you
>>> hold alt you can use arrow keys (up/down/left/right) to navigate too as
>>> well as numbers 1-9 and 0 for first 10 items. if you bind winlist to a key
>>> or button without a modifier it will come up and stay until dismissed (it
>>> wont dismiss when modifier is released). so click on what u want, use arrow
>>> keys, hit enter or escape. so window switching is more useful now.
>>>
>>> I've added exif support to efm's file properties dialog to show date photos
>>> were taken on too.
>>>
>>> efm rename now selects the file minus the extension for more useful renames.
>>>
>>> For those that have been away a while, backlight now supports DDC to control
>>> the backlight on your monitor. you have to install libddcutil (or ddcutil -
>>> it comes with the lib and e dlopens the lib at runtime to detect). DDC
>>> allows us to communicate with the monitor remotely over hdmi/displayport.
>>> it requires i2c-dev to do this and enlightenment_system will load that for
>>> you (on linux), but note - this works on intel systems, but my amd box has
>>> the kernel hang when trying to do this so .. ymmv. To use this - just load
>>> backlight module and put a backlight gadget on each screen. the gadget will
>>> adjust brightness of THAT screen. it works on laptops too - where backlight
>>> on the lid screen will control that and on external screens will control
>>> those. this means the backlight/dimming settings work across laptops and
>>> desktops.
>>>
>>> I can talk about terminology, rage, evisum and now entice too, but I'm
>>> sticking to E here.
>>>
>>> This is out-of-tree, but netstar fixed up forecasts to now use a new weather
>>> service that we end up proxying (requirements of the service to cut down
>>> overhead on their servers), so weather works now after yahoo shut down their
>>> weather service in february.
>>>
>>
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