White-on-black terminal should be default

[Bruno Girin]

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