GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131802
Use of "nice" values are confusing; should not be used
Last modified: 2011-12-11 18:33:14 UTC
GNOME System Monitor should not make references to "nice." nice has confusing semantics, mostly due to lower values being higher priority. The system monitor uses Nice in several areas: 1. The Nice column in the Process List view. 2. Under More Info / Process Info, it says "Priority: Normal - nice 0" 3. The Change Priority dialog uses nice values I think all uses of the word Nice should be replaced with the word Priority, in general: 1. The Nice column should be the Priority column, and should be text like Normal, not Nice numeric values 2. More Info's Priority value should say "Priority: Normal (10)" where it would've said "Priority: Very High - nice -10" - note that this is the opposite of nice values 3. The Change Priority dialog should show a pulldown menu box with "Very High, High, Normal, Low, Very Low," along with an Advanced button that lets you choose the value from -20 (Very Low) to 20 (Very High) - note that these are the opposite of nice values.
what about adding a new colon Priority displaying text ? So one can choose between displaying text or real nice value, or both. The infoview would still display both.
*** Bug 543479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 202180 [details] [review] Proposed patch The patch adds a priority column in the process table to show the nice value in a human-understandable way, and show it by default.
Looks good to me. Committed to master. Thanks.