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MenuMeters 1.0
* [FEATURE] Net meter now allows selection of displayed interface from the menu
and preference pane.
* [FEATURE] CPU meter now supports the Griffin PowerMate. Thanks to Tim Brown
(timb at gograywolf.com) for his assistance getting this done.
* [FEATURE] Mem meter menu now displays information about swap files, including
swap files present, peak swap files (max seen since the meter loaded), swap
location (supports relocated swap) and total swap space.
* [FEATURE] Added Processor temperature info to the CPU menu where supported.
Note that many Mac models made between 2001-2003 do not support processor
temperature. Also note that the temperature reported is only accurate to
approximately +/- 20 degrees. This is a limitation of the processor, and
not a MenuMeters bug. Thanks to Mike Fischer (mike.fischer at
fi-works.de) for pointing out more of my math dyslexia in C to F conversion.
* [FEATURE] Net graph can now be rendered in three styles, standard (same as
previous releases), centered (graph radiates out from center line), and
opposed (graph projects up and down from top and bottom edges of menubar).
* [FEATURE] CPU meter graph and thermometer display now include separate display
color for nice'd processes.
* [FEATURE] Net meter now allows copying TCP/IP address to clipboard.
* [FEATURE] Net meter update interval can now be set as low as 0.5 seconds (same
as CPU meter.
* [FEATURE] Added bar-style (thermometer) display to the Memory meter. Patches
contributed by Bernhard Baehr (bernhard.baehr at gmx.de).
* [FEATURE] Added optional pagein/pageout indicator to the Memory meter. Patches
contributed by Bernhard Baehr (bernhard.baehr at gmx.de).
* [FEATURE] Added "Aqua" style disk LEDs to the disk activity meter. Contributed
by Matthew Williamson.
* [FEATURE] Modified Memory meter to no longer include inactive pages in
its "used" total. This is debatably incorrect as those pages are not "free"
in the sense that vm_statistics_data_t means free, but it does better match
user expectations who interpret the normal increase in inactive pages as
a memory leak. To make the distinction more clear also moved memory usage
into its own section of the Memory meter menu away from memory page
statistics.
* [BUG] CPU percent user/system split display (small text) now ignores nice'd
process load in order to match the method used by Darwin 'top'.
* [BUG] All meters now use NSNumberFormatters to localize number representations.
This allows locale-based thousands and decimal separators. Fix based on
patches provided by Mike Fischer (mike.fischer at fi-works.de).
* [BUG] Substantial internal changes to better support localization. Most
format strings now exposed for localization. Menubar status labels for the
Mem meter used/free display ("U:", "F:") and Net meter throughput display
("Tx:", "Rx:", "/s") are now localizable.
* [BUG] Preference panel UI changed to better follow Apple guidelines and
make localization easier.
* [BUG] Preference file migrated from "MenuMeters.plist" to proper app domain
"com.ragingmenace.MenuMeters.plist".
* [BUG] Disk menu now uses NSWorkspace to open volumes instead of /usr/bin/open.
This results in a slight speed improvement.
* [BUG] Workaround width/clipping issues when rendering non-antialiased text to
the menubar status display in the Mem and Net meters.
* [BUG] Dynamically adjust Mem meter used/free display width to prevent clipping
when the user has more than 1GB of RAM free.
* [BUG] Improve detection of G4 7455 (Apollo) and G3 750fx (Sahara) processors
in the CPU name display in the CPU meter. Some 7455 machines will
still be identified as 7450s, this appears to be due to an Apple bug in
gestaltNativeCPUtype. Since these same machines return correct Gestalt
values in Classic we'll have to wait for Apple to fix it.
* [BUG] Performed tweaks to order and default colors of items in the memory pie
graph. Graph now orders as active, wired, inactive, which seems more logical.
* [BUG] Fix CPU thermometer so that 100% load renders without blank space. Also
fix so low system loads are not clipped by thermometer frame.
* [BUG] Fix negative throughput totals in Net meter when kernel internal net
counters overflow. Caused by negative values from NSNumber's
doubleValue method for NSNumbers containing unsigned long and unsigned long long
values. See http://cocoa.mamasam.com/MACOSXDEV/2002/09/1/44232.php
* [BUG] Fix bad system load total on multiprocessor machines using the "Average
all processors" option.
* [BUG] Increased bounds checking paranoia.
* [LOCALE] German localization added, thanks to Mike Fischer (mike.fischer at fi-works.de).
* [LOCALE] Dutch localization added, thanks to Martijn van Exel (mvexel at xs4all.nl).
MenuMeters 0.7
* [FEATURE] Allow selection of large (menubar clock, 14pt), medium (11pt),
or small (split user/system load 9pt) text font sizes for the percentage
display in the CPU meter.
* [FEATURE] Added preference to CPU meter to allow multiprocessor machines to
use a single display showing average of all processors.
* [FEATURE] Accepted Ben Jansen's patch to place throughput totals in the net
meter in GB/MB/KB totals, not just bytes.
* [FEATURE] Added per interface throughput totals to the net meter menu,
enabling you to see throughput on more than just the primary interface.
* [FEATURE] Added limited support for live menu updated in the net meter,
specifically throughput and interface totals are now updated. The remaining
data cannot be live updated both for performance reasons and because
the menu might change length (see prior notes in the 0.6 changelog).
* [FEATURE] Added page fault and copy-on-write info to the Memory meter.
* [FEATURE] Added "Open Console" to the CPU menu.
* [FEATURE] Added more drive info (device name, file system type) to the disk
menu.
* [BUG] Workaround what looks to be an Apple bug when reading outbound (upload)
traffic on PPPoE interface. This appears to have been the cause of folks
reporting "doubled" throughput totals. Fixed by using the underlying Ethernet
interface directly instead of the pppconfd values. Thanks to Roberto Tremonti
for the report and helping debug.
* [BUG] Workaround issue on some machines where the first MenuMeter from the
right (first loaded) would fail because [NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]
returned the SystemUIServer bundle instead of the menu extra. Thanks to
Cédric Honegger and Tim Brown for their assistance.
* [BUG] Fix overflow problems for network stats in the net meters. Thanks
to Ben Jansen for the report.
* [BUG] Fix unnecessary rewrite of pref file when no data has changed.
* [BUG] Make localization of disk icon set names easier.
* [BUG/WORKAROUND] Document conflict between CPU.menu (from Apple CHUD tools)
and MenuCracker. Check the Known Issues section of the ReadMe for details.
Thanks to David Wood for his assistance.
* [LOCALE] Japanese localization added, thanks to "(@_@)yooo" (webmaster at xiv-view.com).
MenuMeters 0.6
* [FEATURE] By popular demand, the Net meter now allows you to hide the activity
arrows.
* [FEATURE] Menubar status displays now update even when their associated menu
is down.
* [FEATURE] Status related menu items for the CPU and Memory meters are now
updated even when the menu is down (uptime, for example, keeps ticking).
Also lowered the default memory display time to 10 seconds (from 15) to
make this "live" update more obvious.
Note that leaving the menu down and updating will increase the amount of
CPU time used by SystemUIServer.
The Net and Disk menus cannot be made to dynamically update because they
do not have a fixed number of items. The MacOS menu manager can't handle
dynamically resizing menus while they are displayed (not really their fault,
this is a very weird thing to do, and is against Apple's usual guidelines for
menu behavior).
* [FEATURE] Added per-interface traffic totals to the Net config menu for
interfaces where those values are known. These values are the cumulative totals
maintained by the MacOS X networking layer and cannot be manually reset (though
a reboot will reset them).
* [FEATURE] Enabled hiding of labels in the Memory meter status display ("U:", "F:")
and the Net meter throughput display ("Tx:", "Rx:"). This narrows the menu
slightly for those who need those extra pixels.
* [FEATURE] Added a (very narrow) "thermometer" style CPU graph which can be used
alone or in conjunction with the other CPU displays.
* [FEATURE] Got rid of the "Apply", "Revert", etc. buttons in the pref pane.
Pane now updates the meters live.
* [FEATURE] Net meter now allows users to set a lower bound of 1K/sec for throughput
display.
* [BUG] Corrected totally bogus throughput calculation in the net meter
affecting all update intervals except 1 second. Had the math backwards,
how embarrassing. Thanks to Henryk Richter for the patch.
Unless someone tells me different I'm going to assume this is why some
folks believed that the display was in bits per second, not bytes per second
(it has always been bytes per second, it was just wrong).
* [BUG] CPU meter now correctly shows load of "nice"-ed processes such as the
Seti@Home daemon. More bad math on my part. Thanks to Tom Varga for the report.
* [BUG] Net meter now correctly detects the speed of a serial PPP interface and
reports it both in the Net Meter menu config description (when connected)
and uses it for the scaling of the Net meter arrows and graph.
* [BUG] For PPP connections worked around an issue where sysctl did not return
received bytes for the ppp interface (always reported 0 bytes received).
Corrected by talking directly to pppconfd for status information.
* [BUG] Menubar status displays for Net Meter (graph, arrows, and throughput) are
now calculated on the basis of throughput on the primary network interface only.
This was a deliberate limitation of 0.5, but has now been removed.
* [BUG] Net meter config menu should now catch PPP serial connect/disconnect and
update configuration info appropriately.
* [BUG] Resized Net meter throughput to be as small as possible while still being
wide enough to hold four digit ("200.1KB/s" for example) strings.
* [BUG] Fixed problems with stale disk names in the Disk meter's volume list. This
was most noticeable when mounting/unmounting CDs, all CDs would have the name
of the first CD mounted regardless of which CD was in the drive at the time.
Bug looks to be caused by NSFileManager problems in SystemUIServer, workaround
was to switch to Carbon volume info calls.
* [BUG] Fixed title of the color arrow imageset in the Disk meter to include a
space ("Color Arrows" instead of "ColorArrows").
* [LOCALE] French localization added, thanks to Matt Anton (menumeters at syrius.org).