two plugins that would be real useful

ehall

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Network throughput as bps would be really good and save a lot of other calculations (does not alleviate the need for a maths plugin but would save a lot of cycles). In particular if you are wanting to monitor multiple adapters it is a big help, in much the same way as the system plugin's shorthand for memory utilization is very useful.

Next, lcd4linux has a split-bar display mode that is extremely useful. Basically you have a regular horizontal bar, but it is two mini-bars stacked one on the other, with two two different inputs mapped to each mini-bar. So for example, instead of one bar that shows summary network throughput, you have a split bar that shows sent bps on top and rcvd bps on the bottom. Also works good with disk I/O, with reads in one and writes in the other. This gives 2x the info in the same amount of space.

Here is a sample from their XWindows driver, which shows CPU busy for CPU0 and CPU1 separately, and bytes sent/rcvd separately.

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ehall

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A set of proxy plugins that allowed other LCD package plugins to be used with CC2 would also be neat. I am thinking about something that just provided some kind of wrapper function(s) to plugins for LCD Smartie, LCDC, etc.
 

CF Mark

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The calc plugin will be up soon.

The split horiz bargraph would be a nice feature.
Ill add it to the to-do list.

I dont know if you have read it elsewhere in these forums, but the screen-editor is top priority.
New plugins/features will come later.
 

ehall

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A variation on the split-bar would be a two-tone histogram that can stack two inputs. Like, % system processor time would be mapped to solid pattern (black) while % user processor time would be mapped to a stipple pattern (grey), with both of them stacked.

This would be very useful for looking at things like processor time, network utilization, etc.
 

CF Mark

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ehall said:
A variation on the split-bar would be a two-tone histogram that can stack two inputs. Like, % system processor time would be mapped to solid pattern (black) while % user processor time would be mapped to a stipple pattern (grey), with both of them stacked.
Couldnt be done :(
It would need more than 8 custom chars.
 
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