My personal opinion is that the default should be gray on black like the vc.<div><br></div><div>For some reason the terminal colors just work better that way, particularly with midnight commander in a shell in a term.</div>
<div><br></div><div>my two cents.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Derek Broughton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@pointerstop.ca">derek@pointerstop.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Fred . wrote:<br>
<br>
> Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background.<br>
> Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this.<br>
<br>
</div>Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black<br>
background. It's ergonomically very bad. I never use such a terminal<br>
except in Windows, where I haven't figured out (nor spent enough time to<br>
need to) how to change it.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Even Linux have CLI terminal like this.<br>
> KDE also.<br>
> But in GNOME and xterm are black text on white background.<br>
><br>
> Why?<br>
> That is not how a terminal should look!<br>
><br>
> Change the default colors to be white text on black background!<br>
<br>
</div>That is a very bad idea, imo.<br>
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