Indicator should always be visible in GNOME Shell

[Pander]

Fro GNOME Shell, the multiload indicator should be always visible or should at least have an option to make it always visible.

In GNOME Shell it is visible only in the overlay that appears only when the mouse is in the bottom right corner. As in GNOME 2 and GNOME Classic, it should be visible on the 'panel' on the top of the screen. This indicator should always be visible to make it useful.

Fixing this, as he functionality used to be, allows users to quickly and continuously monitor the load. Especially for developers this is important to see when CPU, disk activity or network load is going staying at maximum, indication the system or its software needs some manual action. For normal and advanced users this is also of importance so they can see when a download or heavy copy action has finished.

[Pander (pander)]

Please, see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload/+bug/927303

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pander (pander)]

See also upstream bug for bugwatch:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676474

[Jason Conti (jconti)]

This is doable. In fact it is a one line change to the gnome shell code, adding something like:

'multiload': 'system-monitor',

to the STANDARD_TRAY_ICON_IMPLEMENTATIONS array in:

/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusIconDispatcher.js

But I would say it is probably outside the scope of indicator-multiload. Someone should probably write a gnome-shell extension for this if they want the functionality.

[Michael Hofmann (mh21)]

Installing the topicons extension from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/495/topicons/ will put the indicator in the top bar in all its glory.