White-on-black terminal should be default

[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 <shentino at gmail.com> 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 has a preferred setup.
> 
> There are people who hate "color ls" and always disable it.
> And then there are others that can't tell directories and files apart
> in "ls" if they're not colored differently.
> 
> You won't satisfy everyone.
> 
> Either setup a poll (on brainstorm, for example) or bring some proof
> (a study proving one is better in this and that situation).

And then, you change it and you get a lot of flak from people who liked
the way it was before. The best way to cater for everybody is to make it
customisable, which the Ubuntu terminal already supports. To have white
text on black background in your terminal, do the following:

1. open a terminal
2. go to the Edit -> Profiles... menu
3. select "Default" and click "Edit"
4. select the "colours" tab
5. uncheck "Use colours from system theme"
6. either select a built-in scheme from the drop down (such as "white on
black") or customise your colours using the palette.

There's a bewildering array of customisation options you can play with,
you can even have an image as the background or a semi-transparent
colour. You can also create several profiles to use in different
situations if you want to.

So I reckon, the only thing to do with the terminal is to leave it
alone: it's already customisable way beyond what the Windows and Mac
terminals offer.

Bruno