
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.
kload triggers external commends on mouse double clicks and interval
violations of the various graphs.

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 apart from Linux
- Addition of further panels, e.g. disk, network usage.
- Enhancement of configuration: Colour selection
- Documentation


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


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


March 1999

Uwe Schneider <uwe@richard-schneider.de>

