White-on-black terminal should be default

[Bruno Girin]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:04 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> 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? ;)

Seen in the deficient lighting of the computer room at 4 o'clock in the
morning, it looked black. In natural light, it was probably the darkest
shade of green that technology could produce at the time but I couldn't
tell as I don't remember seeing much daylight when I was using those ;-)

Bruno