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
