White-on-black terminal should be default

[Derek Broughton]

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