Bug#279346: gnome-system-monitor: Arguments column too wide:
obscures remaining columns
Andreas Arnez
Andreas Arnez <arnez@de.ibm.com>, 279346@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:43:20 +0100
Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.6.0-5
Severity: normal
The "arguments" column can obscure the remaining columns, depending on
the length of the argument lists. Only the "process name" and
"arguments" columns are then visible without dragging the horizontal
scroll bar.
gnome-system-monitor doesn't offer nice ways of dealing with this
problem:
- Drag the horizontal scroll bar when needed. Bad, because the process
name is scrolled out as well.
- Reduce the arguments' column width manually. Bad, because the full
arguments can not be seen by any other means. Also, this setting is
lost across restarts.
- Turn off the arguments column. Well...
Some suggestions how to improve:
- By default, show the arguments in the last column instead of the
second.
- Always show the complete arguments in the "more info" area. (BTW, the
selection of information shown in this area is not intuitive to me.
Maybe consider showing everything there which is selecteable as a
column.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-5 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1cvs-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtop2-2 2.6.0-4 Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libwnck4 2.6.2-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-9.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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