Thanks to voters and testers, cpumem-applet has now been promoted to Extras, and you can find the product page here, and other details in my sig.

As some of the interested parties know, cpumem-applet is a fork of load-applet, that aims to be the simplest and most light-weight solution for having cpu&memory load bars in status-area.

The current version, 0.0.3 of cpumem-applet, is a plain strip down of load-applet 0.4.6-1 and all kudos go to Jakub, the maintainer of load-applet.

Improvements are planned and more suggestions are welcome. Just keep in mind that cpumem-applet aims to be slim and is essentially about the status-area icon, when sending suggestions!