Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Shentino wrote: > My personal opinion is that the default should be gray on black like the vc. > For some reason the terminal colors just work better that way, particularly > with midnight commander in a shell in a term. > my two cents. Opinions, opinions. Everyone

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:34 +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Shentino wrote: > > My personal opinion is that the default should be gray on black like the vc. > > For some reason the terminal colors just work better that way, particularly > > with midnight comm

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Földes László
Well, in this case "Everybody" is a big generalisation, as it means you, doesn't it? :-) I - too - like the black background and white/light yellow text in terminals and in text editors, but I won't expect it to be this way by default. If it is brown on light yellow, but I can customize it in

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Tom H
>> Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. >> Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background... > Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black > ba

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > Everybody knows that the bikeshed is green. Seriously, there's a whole tab of preferences devoted to letting you pick what colour you want your terminals. You can have them

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:40 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > >> Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. > > OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background... True, funny enough their te

Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Developer Summit Announced

2010-03-03 Thread Robbie Williamson
The 10.10 Release Schedule has also been posted here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MReleaseSchedule On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:23 -0800, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi All, > > I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next Ubuntu Developer > Summit (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS) taking place at Dolce La

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Rene Veerman
use a ~/.bash_profile to set your colors? On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Fred . wrote: > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. > Even Linux have CLI terminal like this. > KDE also. > But in GNO

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Rene Veerman wrote: > use a ~/.bash_profile to set your colors? It's already configurable in gnome-terminal's settings. Not sure what you want to put in the .bash_profile to make this work. Anyway, this discussion is getting a bit old and not of interest to everyo

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Remco
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H wrote: >> Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black >> background.  It's ergonomically very bad.  I never use such a terminal >> except in Windows, where I haven't figured out (nor spent enough time to >> need to) how to change

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > > > Everybody knows that the bikeshed is green. > > > Seriously, there's a whole tab of preferences devote

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 + Bruno Girin wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > > > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > > > > > Everybody knows that the bikeshed is

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:04 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 + > Bruno Girin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > > > > > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white t

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Földes László
That wasn't black, but dark-dark-green ^_^ Although it might be black between pixels... > A lot simpler than that: the default follows the theme's colours, which > makes complete sense: there's no reason for the terminal to be any > different from other applications. > > Having said that, everybod

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:23 +0100, Remco wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H wrote: > >> Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black > >> background. It's ergonomically very bad. I never use such a terminal > >> except in Windows, where I haven't figured