Move system monitor entry to the top of the list

[Christoph Buchner]

In my opinion, it would make more sense from a UI standpoint, if the system monitor entry would be on top of the list.

Reason:
It would be easier to train muscle memory for opening the system monitor (click - one line down - click), as opposed to now, where one has to move past all the system readings (which are read-only to boot), and find and click the correct entry.

Furthermore, starting the system monitor is _by far_ my most-often used function of that menu.
Preferences are typically only set once, and most of the time the graphs deliver sufficient information that the numerical stats, while a really nice supplemental information(!), don't have to be checked upon by calling the menu.

Do you agree that this would be an improvement?

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

Hi Christoph,

convinced :-).

If you feel adventurous, you can try to provide a patch. What's needed I think is a change to the menu item order in preferences.ui, and some changes to the timeout callback multiloadindicator.vala.

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

OK, I just took a look. It's a bit difficult, since I've never even touched vala or gtk before. :-P
I think it's not a totally trivial change in preferences.ui.in, because the system data are not GtkMenuItems (the menu begins with the separator above the sysmon), so I can't simply move the sysmon above those. In fact, I don't know how/where the system data gets added to the menu. I'll go dig some more...

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

This is now available in the beta versions at ppa:indicator-multiload/daily and will be in 0.3.

Thanks for reporting this!

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

thanks! sorry I couldn't help more... :-/

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

Oh no problem :-)

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

The stable PPA already contains 0.3, so shouldn't this be fix-released?