Feature request : task-lamp and a gui tool to enable services

[Eadwine Rose]

Topic moved to requests area, second topic locked.

[fadi]

But I posted a request about mx service manager in my last post . Should I post it somewhere else.

[Adrian]

I love the new mx service manager . However it should show the service description . This can be achieved by showing a tool tip when you hover over the name of the service. Mageia service manager, which inspired this great tool, does this.

That's what it does in the right-side panel. For sysvinit there's not much info, only the stuff I can load from "/etc/init.d/<ServiceName>" for systemd it might have better description. Mageia might use systemd, have no idea, try to boot to systemd and see if the description shown there is what you want.

[fadi]

I always boot in systemd and no service description on hover.

[Eadwine Rose]

But I posted a request about mx service manager in my last post . Should I post it somewhere else.

I closed your task lamp meta package topic. Didn't see an MX service manager request in that.

[fadi]

I closed your task lamp meta package topic. Didn't see an MX service manager request in that.

just a misunderstanding Eadwine Rose. There are two topics in the current post task-lamp , and the evolution of mx service manager.

[Adrian]

I always boot in systemd and no service description on hover.

New update show have a tooltip on hover, it took me a while to add this without impacting the performance (I don't want to read all the descriptions when loading the list of services regardless if users will hover or not over the item, the tooltip is generate each time you hover on an item -- it should be reasonable fast doing that).

I also eliminated some service duplication and some services that were listed even if they were marked as "not-found".

[fadi]

New update show have a tooltip on hover, it took me a while to add this without impacting the performance (I don't want to read all the descriptions when loading the list of services regardless if users will hover or not over the item, the tooltip is generate each time you hover on an item -- it should be reasonable fast doing that).
I also eliminated some service duplication and some services that were listed even if they were marked as "not-found".

Thanks a lot Adrian . However, Services in systemd that are disabled at boot do not show description at all in tooltips . Also if you want to, full description can be put in the right side panel of systemd as well like you did in sysv init.

[fadi]

Hi Mr Adrian . would you please read my last post

[Adrian]

Yeah, I will take a look at the disabled service, unfortunately it doesn't look like there's one reliable method to get a simple service description...