I've been doing some work on SlimTune quietly, and now it's to the point that I have to decide what the next phase of things should be. There are essentially three major groups of work to tackle: UI improvements, memory profiling, and instrumentation. I'll spend this post explaining what I'm looking at with the UI.

One of the ideas I had with SlimTune was to make the front-end pluggable, so that you or I could develop various views of the data that are neatly customized to focused goals, or provide cool new features. That has worked out fairly well, with the caveat that no one except me is writing visualizers. (That's fine, the database format isn't that stable yet.) However, there turned out to be a number of problems with how the views are actually managed.
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