Devlog-5

soooooo last devlog, I said I wanted to add some uniquely dedicated panes, something specific like something that could monitor RAM and memory while I was working.

… I may have gotten a little too further in that… like a 10 hours too further

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SO ALL PANES WONT JUST BE TERMINALS

Originally every pane in Aster was fundamentally a terminal. That did work just fine, but I wanted something more cause i like torturing myself…

and I refactored the pane’s architecture. Instead of a pane directly holding a terminal, panes can now be different types using a rust enum called PaneKind

So, a pane is just like a container and anything in it can be different and it took a longggg longggg time to change all the code for this, but i can add SOOO many more stuff cause of this (i will tease them in the coming up section)

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System Monitor

and then i just accidentally made my first specific pane

Ctrl+Shift+M now splits the current pane and opens up a super live System Monitor and it displays CPU usage, Memory usage, Disk usage, Network activity, System uptime, Running processes. Both the CPU and memory have cute little bars. (they use sysinfo to update btw)

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Process List & Process Inspector and Terminator

You can select a process and pressing I or Enter to open up a specific process inspector and it shows the process specific stuff like specific things like name, pid, cpu usage and memory usage. and esc or q can get u out of the specific process.

You can kill processes now! just by pressing k in the specific process inspector and saying yes to a confirmation. Though the kill still uses the stored pid, finds the corresponding process through sysinfo and it would request the OS terminate it. (I may have killed Aster… with Aster…)

Originally I was just going to show the top five processes anddddd that lasted exactly one run, because I couldnt kill a process as it kept shifting as the cpu usage kept changing. So, i made it so u can see all the processes

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NEXT

While making Aster I realised that WINDOWS TERMINAL ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF THE THINGS I WANTED.
SO i am changing directions: instead of making aster just another customizable terminal, i want it to be more of a terminal-centered around developer workspace. SO THIS IS THE FIRST STEP.

Next, i want a shortcuts command to show all the shortcuts cause i myself am starting to forget everything. AI Agent monitor so you can see what your agents are doing meanwhile u work.

AND yes i need to make the themes… and fix the bugs…