White-on-black terminal should be default

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 +0000
Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

That was a black background? ;)

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