After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 548853 - Memory and Swap History Pies/Dials are back-to-front
Memory and Swap History Pies/Dials are back-to-front
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: resources
2.23.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-21 12:41 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2008-08-21 12:41:09 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/260017

"The two circular graphics to represent Memory and Swap percentage usage in the resources tab are back-to-front in that they 'fill' in an anticlockwise manner.

This goes against intuition with respect to any dial in the real world. It could be therefore confused as to which is the foreground and which is the background colour on the dial and therefore is it say reading 25% vs 75%, or 5% vs 95%.

I know one could just read the figure in parentheses to the right of the dials, but then what's the point of the graphical representation?"

Thanks,
Comment 1 Benoît Dejean 2008-08-21 20:23:12 UTC 
So the right representation is start from 12H and then clockwise ?
Comment 2 Benoît Dejean 2008-08-25 18:38:31 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.