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On Saturday, 28 January 2023 08:05:47 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:20:03 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > Second, if no one takes it over, what could be used in its place? I'll |
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> > be honest, I don't know of anything that could replace it but I've never |
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> > thought about looking either. I'm looking into app-admin category but |
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> > don't see anything obvious to replace it. |
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> The only thing I've found that comes close is app-admin/conky - it's nice |
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> but a bit awkward to set up. The last time I troed it was a few years ago |
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> and there was the odd issue so I went back to GkrellM. |
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I haven't looked for a replacement of gkrellms for some years now. At the |
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time I was trying out different desktops and gkrellms was having some problems |
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integrating with some of them. |
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I've tried conky and have seen/tried Desktop Info, wxWidgets, Übersicht and |
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even xrootwindow. For my needs no other offering comes remotely close to the |
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gkrellms in terms of helping me with a single glance to spot issues with my |
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system. It is akin to the clocks on a car dashboard. Yes, I can drive |
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without them, but other than noise and vibration I'd have no other feedback |
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from the engine. Whenever I'm on a desktop without gkrellms (e.g. MacOS), I |
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find myself instintively searching for it and even getting frustrated gkrellms |
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is not there. |
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Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly asking |
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for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running. |
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