systemmonitor plasma data engine

[Daniel Faust]

Hi David,

thanks for your quick response. I will have a look at Sensor then.

Greetings
Daniel

Am 23.03.22 um 09:41 schrieb David Redondo:

>
> Am Dienstag, 22. März 2022, 19:48:50 CET schrieb Daniel Faust:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > I'm the author of a small Plasma widget called Netspeed [1], which uses
> > the
> > systemmonitor data engine.
> >
> > This engine comes with ksysguard, which has been replaced by
> > systemmonitor
> > in some distributions. Some users even have issues installing ksysguard
> > manually. It looks like without the data engine I will have to sunset
> > the
> > widget.
> The engine comes with plasma-workspace but relies on ksysguardd.
>
> > Are there plans to maintain the systemmonitor data engine as part of a
> > different or a separate package? Or are there any alternatives to using
> > the
> > systemmonitor data engine?
> I fear not. As the plan for Plasma 6 is right now to drop data engines
> entirely and use more 'proper modules' I also don't see a port of the
> engine
> to ksystemstats happening.
> In the vain of the having bespoke libraries for things the alternative
> for you
> is to use the  Sensor[1] and/or SensorDataModel[2] in the
> 'org.kde.ksysguard.sensors' import. Those are powered by ksystemstats
> and used
> in plasma-systemmonitor/systemmonitor applets.
>
>
> All the best,
> David
>
> [1]
> https://api.kde.org/plasma/libksysguard/html/classKSysGuard_1_1Sensor.html
> [2]
> https://api.kde.org/plasma/libksysguard/html/classKSysGuard_1_1SensorDataModel.html
>
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