Pulsar v0.8.0

GPU power in watts, memory as an amount, a connection dot, Japanese, and a Pulsar that does much less work for the same readings. There's also a new site for designing and sharing themes.

New

• GPU power item: how many watts NVIDIA cards draw, on the taskbar, in its popup and in the details window. The popup also shows the share of the power limit, plus load and temperature when the other GPU items are on. Other vendors only report watts through their own SDKs, so they aren't covered. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• Memory as an amount: Settings → Sensors → Units → Memory can show the amount in use instead of the percentage, for both memory and GPU memory. Graphs, load colors and alerts still follow the percentage. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• Connection dot: Devices → Network → Connection dot puts a dot before the network arrows. It uses the low color with internet access, the high color with only the local network or behind a sign-in page, and the critical color with no connection. It reads the same status Windows' own network icon uses, so nothing is pinged. The network popup gains a Connection row. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• Pulsar Themes (https://oman-rod.github.io/Pulsar/): design a theme on a mock desktop that draws the way Pulsar does, then export it or share it with others. You can also build a whole profile there: item order, graph styles, popups, the widget and more. Settings → Theme links to it. Some new common themes are now available for download, grab them as they are or tweak them to your taste.
  • Dracula by Zeno Rocha
  • Gruvbox Dark by Pavel Pertsev
  • Monokai by Wimer Hazenberg
  • Nord by Artic Ice Studio
  • Tokyo Night by enkia
• Japanese (日本語). Thanks to @dryout.

Fixed

• The overlay no longer goes invisible after it moves back onto the taskbar.
• Watts, volts and frame rates stay inside their cell instead of running into the next column just below 10 W, 10 V or above 999 fps. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• The GPU memory item no longer jumps between two cards that are equally full. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• An NVIDIA card that appears after Pulsar starts is now read, and one that stops responding is found again. Thanks to @DhakadG.
• The tray icon no longer leaks drawing resources when Windows runs short of them. Thanks to @DhakadG.

Changed

• Lighter on CPU and memory. On a typical setup Pulsar now spends about a quarter of the CPU time per update that 0.7.0 did:
  • Network rates come straight from each adapter's counters.
  • Solid state drive temperatures are read every 10 seconds.
  • Battery details are reread once a minute.
  • Pulsar stops reading the taskbar while the display is off or the PC is locked.
• The sensor service rests while no app needs it, and reads the CPU and GPU sensors only while something shows them: a tile, an item, the widget, an alert or an open popup. Frame rates keep updating while the other readings rest.
• Recordings are saved every 5 seconds instead of on every row, and Pulsar tells you if finishing one fails.

New Contributors

• @dryout made their first contribution in #15
• @DhakadG made their first contribution in #16

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0