About this computer

[Corey Burger]

On Dec 14, 2007 6:05 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 13 décembre 2007, à 21:45 -0800, Corey Burger a écrit :
>
> > On Dec 13, 2007 9:00 PM, Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been working on the implementation of the AboutThisComputer
> > > blueprint[1] and I have a little demo script of the data gathering
> > > component.  It pulls a bunch of data from HAL and some config files and
> > > prints to the screen.  I wanted to post it here so that people could run
> > > it on various configurations and see what breaks.  It's nothing fancy,
> > > but I want to try to vet out problems before more code depends on them.
> > > Here's an example output from my Mac mini:
> >
> > How does this jive with the existing work on the System-Monitor tab
> > "System" tab? Might it be smart just to name System Monitor to About
> > this computer and extend it to understand packages?
>
> I think the issue here is that we might not want people to have a tab
> with the process list too when clicking on About this computer. (Well,
> it might make sense, but on the other hand, it might be a bit too much
> information). But maybe it could in gnome-about...
>
> (I know, I know, I'm annoying with my upstream hat ;-))
>
> Vincent

Actually, I would argue that currently running processes are very much
"about this computer".

Corey