Description column for System Monitor

[Fred]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

Add a 'Description' column to the GNOME System Monitor.

GNOME System Monitor lists processes, and the processes can sometimes have cryptic filenames which the user does not understand what the process is for. So I suggest to create an 'Description' column to explain the process.

The user sees "gdm", "atd", "cron", "trackerd", "nm-applet", "sh", and get confused because he don't know what it is.

He look in the Description column and sees that "gdm" is "GNOME Display Manager", "sh" is "shell", and "nm-applet" is "network-management applet", etc.

Because when a user checks the running processes and sees "gvfsd" he have no idea what it is, with this Description column, he can easily see that it is the "GNOME virtual file system daemon".

* http://attachments.techguy.org/attachments/131192d1209566643/windows-task-manager.png
* http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/83f858/use-the-new-task-manager-in-windows-8/Images/Services-tab-in-windows8-task-manager.jpg

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, please feel free to forward it upstream since you're interested in such feature, for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; I'm leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks you for sent it upstream, linking the report.