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TaskExplorer
- teddyh 2y agoFor Windows only.
- muterad_murilax 2y agoYes, for now. But: "Task Explorer is built using the Qt Framework, ensuring a cross-platform user interface with plans to eventually port the tool to Linux, which could make it one of the first advanced, GUI-based task managers for the platform."
- diggan 2y agoFeels like the UI should be the least of your worry when wanting to port a task manager from Windows to Linux/macOS, but maybe I'm imagining it worse than it is.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoThis should be in the title.
- koolraap 2y agoWhy are there no images of a GUI app on its home or GitHub page? https://xanasoft.com/TaskExplorer/ https://xanasoft.com/TaskExplorer/ https://github.com/davidxanatos https://github.com/davidxanatos
- MortyWaves 2y agoI was about to ask the same thing. It should be studied at this point, it happens so often.
- smusamashah 2y agoFound a screenshot here https://www.neowin.net/software/taskexplorer-160/ https://www.neowin.net/software/taskexplorer-160/ using google images a few more here https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/TaskExplorer.shtml https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/TaskExplore...
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoWell, that explains why the project page doesn't include any screenshots!
- diggan 2y agoMaybe HN ruined me, but I'd prefer a UI that isn't very pretty but information-dense, especially for a use case like this, and especially when the alternative is whitespace/tabs-galore in order to make data more spread out. That said, it is ugly, like most Windows utilities tend to be.
- dewey 2y agoThere's still a difference between functional, information-dense design and a missing sense of design or care. An interface displaying a lot of information, and ways to manipulate data can be functional and information-dense if there's thought put into how to do the layout, usage of colors, icons and other factors (Thinking about power user tools like Logic, Video cutting software, internal company tools or POS software that is used by many, all the time). It might not necessarily look "clean" and beautiful to the uninitiated but it gets the work done effectively.
- bane 2y agoI'm still of the opinion that hacker-built GUI tools have their own kind of beauty in the way a specialized and intricate woodworking tool might. Nobody shies away from showing some impenetrable command-line doodad with bad ASCII art, why not the equivalent for GUI tools who's audience is the equivalent of your average bash-bro?
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoSure, it's largely subjective, but whatever's going on in that "File" panel in the bottom right looks downright unusable.
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- spiderfarmer 2y agoWhenever a project fails to do that, I just assume they built it for themselves and don't really want other users.
- qiine 2y agothat kind of things drive me crazy, a few well curated pic would tell us so much more than walls after walls of texts...
- hu3 2y agoThis seems very powerful. Specially the threads section. Thanks for sharing.
- UK-Al05 2y agoNo screenshots, and not obvious what platform it runs on.
- meinersbur 2y agoWhy prefer this over SysInternal's Process Explorer (other than it is Open Source) or Process Informer (on which TaskExplorer seems to be based on) directly?
- barlog 2y agoYou might also like this one, formerly ProcessHacker. <https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/canary https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/canary>
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- huffguff 2y agoits a formidable taskmanager i just disabled this https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/124887-onesyncsvc-service.html https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/124887-onesyncsvc-... It gives a lot of information about what windows svhosts are doing
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