jim warner authored Mar 18, 2024 and Craig Small committed Mar 21, 2024

When new startup colors were introduced in that commit
referenced below (way back in 2014) they were intended
to impact only those users who hadn't saved an rcfile.

Unfortunately, that goal wasn't met initially and only
corrected in a later patch, which is also shown below.

In any case, the color customization provisions didn't
allow sufficient granularity. For example, there was a
single selection affecting both task color & the color
highlighting running tasks and/or current sort column.

Even worse, such colors might look good under an xterm
(with a light background) but look awful when run with
a gnome-terminal (and its dark background). Admittedly
all colors can be turned off (the 'z' toggle) allowing
terminal emulators to choose light/dark text depending
on the background. But, there was no way only selected
elements could have been targeted for such treatments.

Well, with this patch not only can color be turned off
for selected elements, but a separate X/Y color choice
is being made available. Plus, assuming that configure
is run without --disable-modern-top, the defaults will
also exploit these new COLOR Mapping ('Z') provisions.

Reference(s):
. Sep, 2014 - again fully honor saved rcfile
commit b0767bd3
. Jun, 2014 - new defaults & --disable-modern-top
commit 8ef6cd91



Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>