I've been talking a bit with folks working on GNOME about the state of System Monitor app and its handful of community-made alternatives, then I had a thought:
Is it a wild idea to just... not have the app?
Wait wait, put away your pitchforks! We could do something better!
What if the reasons people actually use System Monitor were just exposed more contextually in the OS, for everyone? 🤔
For example...
Some of the identified uses for opening system monitor:
• Check if something is hogging bandwidth
• See if an app is pegging the CPU
• Figure out what's eating all the RAM
• Know why your computer's fans are suddenly spinning up
I feel like most of that could be integrated with the system menu where as of recently we expose background apps. Could we expose resource-intensive apps in the same way?
Could per-app bandwidth usage be shown in the networking menu or Settings app, instead?
@cassidy It would also be important IMO the ability of stopping processes that are having some problem, like eating CPU or memory for breakfast.
In this context, a system monitor tool. Having a tool to help identify problems like the above, is not that much use without something to deal with the identified process/problems.
