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Bug 543479 - Change "Nice" to "Priority" in System Monitor
Change "Nice" to "Priority" in System Monitor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131802
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: process list
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-17 19:18 UTC by Moo
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Moo 2008-07-17 19:18:34 UTC 
In GNOME System Monitor, it has a column called "Nice".
* http://www.watchingthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/image/ubuntusysmonitor4.png

"Nice" comes from command 'nice';
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix)

However, the term "Nice" doesn't tell a user who don't know it, anything. The correct term to use would be "Priority" as that is what it indicates.

People look at it, and they get confused "What, is it is nice? what does that mean?"

Other information:
Comment 1 Benoît Dejean 2008-07-17 21:51:04 UTC 
That's a matter of documentation. If you don't what is nice, how would you now that 20 has is a lower priority than -10 ?
Comment 2 Benoît Dejean 2008-07-17 21:54:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131802 ***
Comment 3 Moo 2008-07-18 22:39:52 UTC 
That 20 has a lower priority than -10 is another thing that is dumb.
It is not user-friendly!

In Windows its user-friendly, you have "Low priority", "Normal priority", "High priority", and "Very high priority", etc.