White-on-black terminal should be default

[Shentino]

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 <derek at 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.
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