RFS: Conky - A lightweight, highly configurable system monitor based on Torsmo
Hi everyone,
My name is Jason, and I am a developer for Conky, which is a low-resource, no-frills system
monitor for X, risen from the ashes of the no longer active Torsmo
program. We just released our latest and greatest, version 1.3.0 just
yesterday (August 31st UTC), and I was charged with the task of
building a debian package to accompany the release. Our development is very active... as shown on our sourceforge tracker,
we have closed out all reported bugs and fulfilled 7 of 10 feature
requests.
The relevant sites:
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http://conky.sf.net (brand new css/xhtml, rolled out with 1.3.0... screenshots, changelog, docs, information)
http://www.sf.net/projects/conky (release files downloads, trackers for bugs/feature requests, etc.)
The relevant files for packaging
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jtan325/conky/conky_1.3.0.orig.tar.gz
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jtan325/conky/conky_1.3.0-1.diff.gz
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jtan325/conky/conky_1.3.0-1.dsc
Our hope for Conky was to continue Torsmo and provide a very simple and
uninvading system monitor that would sit on your root window and
consume very little resources, compared to gDesklets or gkrellm. Conky
is highly customizable in both look and content (see
http://conky.sf.net/screenshots.html for some of Conky's many possible
faces), but it is almost entirely text-based, besides the bars and
gradient graphs. A list of all the different "variables" that conky can
display are show at http://conky.sf.net/variables.html , including
download/upload speed, disk i/o, ac status, mpd song/progress (if mpd
is setup), seti@home progress, and of course, the standard RAM/CPU
usage. portions of a file can be read and displayed (i.e.
.xsession-errors), and stdout can be captured from the execution of a
program and also displayed.
As for the packaging... this is my very first debian package, but I
have done alot of reading, asked alot of questions, and was fortunate
enough to have a Debian Developer, the kind Pierre Chifflier, review my
packaging and point out problems to the best of his ability. I am
hoping there are few to zero bugs left, and that someone could sponsor
Conky. But I doubt that any packaging is ever right the first time, so
let me know and I will fix it ASAP. Please be aware that I am moving
into a new apartment within the next few days, and will only have
guaranteed internet access during the day at my job, until the internet
guy sets up this Saturday.
I know there is already an ITP for this, #320978
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320978 . I've emailed
Bjarke Bolding, but have not received any response. I've mentioned that
this ITP is closed in the debian/changelog (thanks to Pierre).
Thanks for your time,
Jason Tan
P.S. If you are experimenting with Conky for fun and need help, email
me or join us on #conky... one of us five devs are usually around to
answer most questions.
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