GNOME Makes New System Monitor Extension for GNOME Shell
Now a new option is available for GNOME Shell users, one designed, developed, and supported by GNOME itself.
Why create its own resource monitor add-on?
GNOME developer Florian Müllner explains:
“A long time ago, we used to include a system monitor extension, that added CPU/memory graphs to the (long gone) message tray. However demand for this type of extensions hasn’t died down, to the point where RHEL includes a revived version of the old extension.”
In light of the continue need, they’ve built a brand-new system monitor extension. The new iteration is unlikely to suffer from the CPU and memory flaws found in the old version.
This extension (like all GNOME-made ones) is entirely optional, and is not part of GNOME Shell itself (so if you have no use for this, you needn’t fret).