Mihai's MemFree is a GAI based GNOME applet which displays the memory usage Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 11936 [details] The portage script
Created attachment 13357 [details] mihais-memfree-0.1.ebuild I couldn't get your proposed ebuild to work, it doesn't configure the package before trying to compile it. Attached a new proposed ebuild and patch.
Created attachment 13358 [details] mihais-memfree-0.1.patch Patch for above proposed ebuild.
maybe desktop-dock herd wants to take a look at these
I'm not interested in this one. It is based on x11-plugins/wmmemfree (which is already in Portage) and does not display memory usage correctly on 2.6 kernels. I wrote a patch for wmmemfree, but I'm not going to fix this one, too. BTW, you can run wmmemfree (which has the very same interface) as a gnome applet by using gnome-extra/gnome-swallow...
Closing...