Bug#900390: RFP: multiload-ng -- modern graphical system monitor for XFCE/MATE/LXDE/Ubuntu Unity and others

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : multiload-ng
  Version         : 1.5.2
  Upstream Author : Mario Cianciolo <mr.udda@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://udda.github.io/multiload-ng
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : modern graphical system monitor for XFCE/MATE/LXDE/Ubuntu Unity and others


Multiload-ng is a modern graphical system monitor. It's a near-complete
rewrite of the good old GNOME multiload applet, that aims to support every
existing panel.

It supports the following panels:

* XFCE (xfce4-panel)
* LXDE (lxpanel)
* MATE (mate-panel)
* Ubuntu Unity (through libappindicator)
* Every panel with support for Application Indicators
* System tray (virtually any panel with a systray, in particular those
  without external plugins support, like tint2)
* Standalone (has its own window, not embedded in any panel)
* Avant Window Navigator (EXPERIMENTAL)

Multiload-ng can be built with GTK2 and GTK3, so can be embedded within
GTK2/GTK3 builds of all the panels above.

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This package is very useful for people that want to run some desktops like
XFCE or LXDE that don't have system monitors as complete and/or as useful as
multiload-ng.

Even for desktops like MATE, which has its fork of GNOME 2's multiload
applet, multiload-ng provides integrated, in one single process, other
monitors, which obviate the use of extra applets (which wake up the
processor at non-synchronized times and prevent lowering the battery
consumption for notebooks).

This package would ideally be maintained by someone from the LXDE and/or the
XFCE teams. It is really useful and versatile.



Thanks,

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