Description: I never liked the standard themes on kde-look.org that used the same canned format with only modifed backgrounds and icons. A lot of fucntionality in them I found useless. Commenting out a particular component only left blank spots. I discovered TDE which was modular in design. Later I grew tired of TDE's large component size. I tried to find a minimal theme and I was left with the same problem above. So I created my own.
time.theme - Date, time and uptime. (not in screen shot) cpu-usgae.theme - CPU % cpu-usgae-withspeed.theme - CPU % and reports processor speed if you have cpufreq enabled, designed for laptops. Thanks to Jason D. ram-usage.theme - Memory and swap in use (excluding buffers and cache) cputemp.theme - CPU temperature and fan speed sysemtemp.theme - System temperature and fan speed disk-*.theme - Disk usage as a percent net-usage.theme - Current network speed. the top part is input and bottom is output. netstat.theme - Displays 6 network connections
I personally don't have a desire for other functionality. If there is something you want. Feel free to ask. That doesn't mean I will add it. Otherwise anyone is welcome to send me a component to be packaged with MiniKaramba or I can link to one.
Usage: Load each theme file or all.theme. cputemp and systemtemp theme may need to be modified to suit your particular system. Run the 'sensors' program to check. In systemtemp.theme I have the fan speed commented out. On my sytem there isn't a reading.
disk-home is an example of reporting the disk space of the /home directory. To add more disks simply copy disk-home.theme and rename home to something your choosing. Modify the mountpoint="" option to your chosen disk.
Note: This is not in skz format. Since MiniKaramba uses multiple theme files I'm not sure how to handle that yet.
The "Processes" theme from the screen shot is a seperate theme, karamTop, linked below.Last changelog:
0.2 ------------- - Fixed a typo in ram-usage.theme. Now shows a graph for swap space. - Added cpu-usage-withspeed.theme. Shows cpufreq. I can't test this. So let me know if there are any problems. Thanks to Jason D for sending me this.
I like the way you organized your desktop. I have mine in a very similar way- no icons on the desktop, everyting is on the panels.
But I wonder which pager are you using that shows you desktop previews? I have previews checked, but it only shows the window borders...
br
I'm actually using kicker pager. As there is some kind of known issue with kde 3.4 with kpager2.
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13771
I use my Desktop literally as a desktop. It's a temporary area. Nothing sits on it more than a few hours.
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I like the way you organized your desktop. I have mine in a very similar way- no icons on the desktop, everyting is on the panels. But I wonder which pager are you using that shows you desktop previews? I have previews checked, but it only shows the window borders... br
Nevermind, I found it- it's kpager2 :-)
I'm actually using kicker pager. As there is some kind of known issue with kde 3.4 with kpager2. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13771 I use my Desktop literally as a desktop. It's a temporary area. Nothing sits on it more than a few hours.
tnx!