Latest linux props-ng 'top' format terrible
Tue May 5 14:19:25 2015
What the hell? The new top output is awful. It's ugly, the colors are low contrast, and why is it using colors anyway? A few would be fine if they meant something, but color just for the sake of color is terrible.
Also, this is in 3.3.10, which is a point release. A point release is for bug fixes or trivial changes. Not "we thought you might like to not know how to use our software anymore". The change should have been at least a 3.4, and probably a 4.0. That would at least let everyone know something was up.
For the record, 'zV1W' seems to get the old settings back and write them to a .toprc.
That .toprc is in some undocumented format. It's effectively a binary configuration format. It should probably be called '.topblob' instead of '.toprc'. I expect to be able to edit a .rc file.
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