KDE Priority handler

KDE Priority handler is an application that monitors the current active processes/applications and let's the user categorize the process into an priority group.

This is very usefull for buggy and/or cpu intensive applications. By adding these to an low priority group makes the desktop usable even if they go berserk on the system.

Hope you find it usefull.

How it works:

By default most user processes get the nice level 0, higest possible to set without root access.
My program monitors the active processes and change thire nice level to correspondent with the group it's been added to witin my program.

ex. The user starts konqueror, and get an popup about this processes is found and is unrated. Now the user chooses "konqueror" in the treeview to the left, then presses the "Webbrowser" icon.
This renices konqueror to the nice level of webbrowsers. Next time konqueror is started (and KDE Priority handler is runing) it will automaticly renice the process without any user interferance.

With the introduction of v0.2 most of the suggested features are added and quite a few other. Please feel free to comment/drop me an mail about features you miss or bugs you found.

2007-10-29 KDE Priority handler v1.0 RC2

Fix: It now works with kernel 2.6.23, as well as with prior kernels.

Fix: The systray and active icons now works properly.

Feature: Autohide empty categories in the treeview (grouped, independent, unrated)

2007-10-28
I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.23, and it looks like theer might have been some changes to the /proc layout due to the new shedulers. So right now this app wont work for .23.

2007-10-10
I noticed an graphical glitch, when an process goes deactive/active the indication icon for this wont change. Ill fix it to RC2.

2007-10-08 Archlinux -- AUR
This application is now avaible in the AUR for archlinux, the package name is knice.

2007-10-08 KDE Priority handler v1.0 RC1

This is the first release candidate. It should be quite stable and fast. NOTE: The GUI hasent changed from 0.2.

Fix: There was an issue with increasing cpu usage when the list of processes grew. This should now be fixed.

Fix: Various internal improvments, this should be noticed in less cpu usage.

Fix: Changed the update interval from 2 seconds to 3 seconds to even further decrease the cpu usage.

2007-10-04 KDE Priority handler v0.2 Beta Bug fix

Fix: In some uniqe situations a process dosent live long enought to retrive information from it. This caused an crash (std::__throw_length_error()).

2007-10-01 KDE Priority handler v0.2 Beta (Major update)

Feature: Group management. It's now possible to add and remove groups.

Feature: Added the abilaty to handle processes independent from any group.

Feature: Added icons to indicate whatever an process is active or not.

Feature: It's now possible to change priority and icon for a group by selecting it with the right mouse button.

Fix: New unrated processes now get an low priority (17).

2007-09-15 Beta 0.1.1 relased

Fix: Removed the "Store" button as it's function was removed prior to the beta release.

Fix: Removed the popup. Dident work well, was mostly annoying.

Feature: The system tray now uses an different icon if there is unrated processes.

Feature: It's now possible remove the rating policy for an process. Select it in the "Rated" tree and press delete(keyboard).

NOTE: The package filename have changed to include version.

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Fixed the download link.

First beta release, not to buggy i hope :)