Bug#279346: gnome-system-monitor: Arguments column too wide: obscures remaining columns

[Andreas Arnez]

Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.6.0-5
Severity: normal

The "arguments" column can obscure the remaining columns, depending on
the length of the argument lists.  Only the "process name" and
"arguments" columns are then visible without dragging the horizontal
scroll bar.

gnome-system-monitor doesn't offer nice ways of dealing with this
problem:

- Drag the horizontal scroll bar when needed.  Bad, because the process
  name is scrolled out as well.

- Reduce the arguments' column width manually.  Bad, because the full
  arguments can not be seen by any other means.  Also, this setting is
  lost across restarts.

- Turn off the arguments column.  Well...

Some suggestions how to improve:

- By default, show the arguments in the last column instead of the
  second.

- Always show the complete arguments in the "more info" area.  (BTW, the
  selection of information shown in this area is not intuitive to me.
  Maybe consider showing everything there which is selecteable as a
  column.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-5        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-7        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1cvs-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-2                2.6.0-4        Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwnck4                  2.6.2-1        Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-9.1     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-3      compression library - runtime

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