Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.8-9 Severity: wishlist I occasionally run top under vala-terminal in Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner phone. The screen on this device is 2.84" diagonal. After removing the space taken by the virtual keyboard, panel and vala-terminal toolbar, this gives a terminal size of 51x19 which is enough to display up to the %MEM column and 12 processes. If I increase the font size to something that is more readable and restart top then I get a size of 28x10 which is enough to display up to the VIRT column and 3 processes. I'd like top to gracefully degrade in the following ways:
Assign an "importance" value to each column based on some criteria, sort the columns by "importance" and drop any columns that don't fit in the terminal size. I'm thinking that the importance order should be something like currently selected sort column, command, pid, user, %CPU, %MEM, TIME+, NI, PR, VIRT, RES, SHR & S. The importance order should be configurable so that people can customise it. The rows at the top should become progressively more abbreviated as the number of columns in the terminal decreases. Initially the extra whitespace should be removed, then abbreviate phrases to single words, then abbreviate words to less and less characters, then just display the numbers and units, then drop units. The rows at the top should have "importance" values and should be dropped to make way for more processes. The drop order should be configurable and default to something like blank line, Tasks, Swap, Mem, Cpu(s), top. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: armel (armv4tl) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc3 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages procps depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-7 scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-5 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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