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README for version 0.3

Changes:
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* I discovered, that I made a mistake while interpreting the nice-load
  values, so I removed the nice-load-part from the CPU-load-display,
  and now show the system-load as red and the user-load as green bar.

* The load-history also shows the history of the system-load as red line,
  now. The green line shows like before the overall-load history 
 ( added up from system-load and user-load ).


Enjoy,
Michael Hoess
hoess@gmx.net

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README for version 0.2

Preface:
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* Starting with KDE a few weeks ago, I found KTOP, but it 
  didn't compile anymore with recent version of the KDE.

  After contacting the author (Alexander Sanda) he said, he
  temporarly stopped working on KTOP (he's busy with some
  other great KDE-components) and it would be OK for him,
  if I would release a fixed version.

Changes:
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* I mainly adapted some function-names to recent versions
  of the KDE-Libraries.

* I also made some minor functional changes. 
  In the CPU-Gauge, the usage-bar is now displayed in 
  three colors ( red=system-usage, yellow=user-usage,
  green=niced-usage ).
  
* If you don't like the functional changes (or if they don't work;-), 
  you can rid of them by removing the "-D_ALTERNATE_"-entry from the 
  CFLAGS-line in the Makefile.


Misc:
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* Perhaps I will add run-time-configuration for the alternate 
  display-styles and some more features in a few weeks, when I finished 
  some tests at the university.

* Forgive my bad english :-)


Bye,
Michael Hoess
hoess@gmx.net

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	KTOP, KDE process viewer/performance monitor

General:
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This is an early alpha version of ktop, a taskmananger and performance
monitor with its look & feel shamelessly copied from Windows(tm) NT 4.


What it currently can do:
-------------------------

* View all running processes.
Ktop will refresh the process list every 60 seconds, but you can
configure this by "Settings->Process viewer settings". The update
frequency will be stored in the .kderc under the section "KTOP".

* View current cpu load and memory usage:
Ktop does not display the average load (loadavg). Instead, it reads
/proc/stat and calculates the current cpu load by using the
user/system/idle tick values. Eventually, I'll add a loadavg display
(maybe as an option ?).

If you dismiss (minimize) ktop's main window by clicking on OK, it'll
display the so called "load icon". It is a small window, containing the
current load display. It'll disappear, when you restore ktop's main
window.

NOTE: The load-icon won't appear, if you minimize the main window by
using the minimize button.

The memory monitor is not very capable at the moment. It can only
display the total amount of used memory (including used swap). The
horizontal red colored line is the physical memory limit.

Ktop needs Qt release 1.1 (because it uses the QTabDialog). Also, it
uses the KApplication and KConfig classes from libkde-0.5. Per default,
Ktop creates a section [KTOP] in

Unimplemented things in this release:
-------------------------------------
Process viewer/detail view.
Some process viewer settings.
Performance monitor settings.
.
.

have fun !
