[arch-general] procps-ng 3.3.13 and its new topdefaultrc

[Leonid Isaev]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:20:10PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 04/11/2018 12:08 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> > It's ironic, I guess, that the procps-ng developers did this in order to
> > provoke people into learning how to configure top, but now we have
> > people preferring the old look, who complain when the default changes,
> > and then when we revert to the old look we have people complaining about
> > the old look, but no one seems interested in, well, configuring it as
> > upstream intended...
> > 
> > (Kudos to Jonathon for being principled enough in both desiring
> > distro-customized defaults for Manjaro users and implementing them the
> > right way. I wonder if anyone will actually learn how to use top though...)
> 
> Did I miss something obvious? Are you suggesting there is a simply toprc flag
> that allows choosing between old and new top interfaces?

It should also be mentioned that ~/.toprc is the most hideous config file on my
system :) And FWIW, I don't think that upstream wanted to provoke any learning
-- they just made a change for the sake of it (probably following GNOME 3.x :).

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev