On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +0000, 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 devoted to letting you > pick what colour you want your terminals. You can have them lurid pink > on green if you like. > > The default is the way it is because it provides the best contrast on > the majority of screens (TFTs, LCDs, etc.)
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, everybody(*) knows that a real hardcore terminal should be like the VT100 of old: green text on black background ;-) (*) everybody = me and my non-existent dog Bruno -- 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
