Re: [PATCH 5/5] perf tools: Add report.show-headers config file option

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:58:15 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:28:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:56:44PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
>> > 2014-06-19 (목), 13:41 +0200, Jiri Olsa:
>> > > Adding report.show-headers config file option to setup
>> > > the appearance of the columns headers.
>> > > 
>> > > Currently columns headers are displayed by default, following
>> > > lines in ~/.perfconfig file will disable that:
>> > > 
>> > >   [report]
>> > >         show-headers = true
>> > 
>> > This also applies to perf top, right?  And it's TUI-specific.  So how
>> > about calling it something like "tui.show-headers"?
>> 
>> Why should it be TUI specific? You either show the headers or you don't,
>> in all UIs.
>> 
>> And also in all tools, I think, so I suggest putting it in some global,
>> for all tools, section in the config file, i.e. something like
>> all.show-headers.
>
> seems like so far we have 'core.' and 'hist.' as non-command specific
> config sections (note '.core' does not hold any options yet)
>
> I can add another 'all.' section

I don't think it's a better name - it's too general.  If we really want
to control all UI behavior I'd rather suggest 'ui.' section name.

Oh, I found that it'd somewhat clash with existing --header(-only)
option in perf report. :-/

Thanks,
Namhyung