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. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Derek Broughton <de...@pointerstop.ca>wrote: > 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. > > 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 it. > > > Even Linux have CLI terminal like this. > > KDE also. > > But in GNOME and xterm are black text on white background. > > > > Why? > > That is not how a terminal should look! > > > > Change the default colors to be white text on black background! > > That is a very bad idea, imo. > -- > derek > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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