kload
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What is kload?
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kload is a graphical multi panel load display for the KDE project.
At the moment the following system parameters are displayed in 
the time domain:
- CPU saturation (divided into user, nice, sys and idle tasks)
- RAM consumption (divided into user, shared, buffers and free memory)
- Load average
The program allows to switch between horizontal and vertical arrangement,
selective de-/activation of individual panels, and full geometry
management.

At the moment kload is tested only for Linux/x86 under qt 1.33 and KDE 1.0.

kload is distributed unter the General Public License (see COPYING).


What has to be done?
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Quite a lot:
- Conformity with KDE standards: session management, i18n, help, source
  code tree.
- Platform support
- Addition of further panels, e.g. disk, swap, network usage.
- Enhancement of configuration: Colour selection, menu bar visibility.
- Triggers on events like double clicks, limit transgressions
- Documentation


Installation
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At the moment installation is very simple:
- make
- cp kload $KDEDIR/bin



Please note that the current version reflects my poor experience in KDE
programming. Therefore any help will be appreciated.

July 1998

Uwe Schneider <uwe@richard-schneider.de>

