sort of replacement for the gnome panel system monitor in gnome unity?

[Bazon]

I liked having my computer status in the upper gnome panel (system monitor with CPU and network + temperatures) to see what's going on with my hardware, is there some kind of replacement for this?

[cariboo907]

Unless someone comes up with an indicator applet, there is no way to to add anything to the panel at this time.

[MacUntu]

I guess as long as the indicator API only allows you to draw text and icons (don't know if that's still the case), a system monitor clone is not going to happen.

One thing I tried some months ago was to create and replace a new icon on every update. It worked, but had some major downsides: a lot of I/O from creating the new icons, laggy under CPU or I/O load, and it's generally a pretty bad way to implement it.

That said, yeah, I do hope we get a replacement for the system and the sensor applets.

[eltama]

I'm missing the system monitor too.
Could it be implemented as a special icon in Unity (like in Docky) or the entries in Unity are just plain icons?

[cariboo907]

Appindicators can be active icons, just use brasero to burn a cd to see an example. As an alternative for now the only choices seem to be conky or desklets.

[thaDM]

I hope there'll be an indicator for this too; I miss the system monitor in the panel.

[jerrylamos]

Unless someone comes up with an indicator applet, there is no way to to add anything to the panel at this time.

From my standpoint, that's a "loss of function" or "regression" in Natty Unity vs. Maverick. I had a row of applets at the top of Gnome of things I usually use.

Now I might just be willing to take that as far as launching applications goes. In this Unity 2D the launchers are easy to reach if a bit slower because of the hiding and exposing launcher dock on the left.

And I can get system and preferences by selecting the top corner and starting to type the name in the search box. A bit slower than gnome but it does work.

However I do use the "system monitor" applet on a couple of my installations which isn't available in Unity 2D or 3D that I can find.

For all this grumping, on my two pc's that won't use Unity 3D I do find myself using Natty Unity 2D vs. gnome desktop....

Jerry

[jennybrew]

I suspect Ubuntu may revisit this at sometime in the future as they put a lot of work into it.
In the meantime Conky is fun and really enhances your desktop.
Maybe not the best thing to do during an alpha phase ..but a few weeks down the line maybe

[MacUntu]

Conky is no replacement for me. I want that information in the panel, where I can see it all the time.

[mc4man]

The only applet missed here is the weather applet, there is a replacement for it (indicator-weather) which is ok but not quite as good - no radar, otherwise atm about the same