Should we set vim's default background colorscheme to assume dark?

[Stefan Bader]

On 23.01.2012 22:44, Clint Byrum wrote:
> This bug was filed fairly recently:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/871907
> 
> I tend to think that its a bit confusing why we default to a light
> background setting in vim, when our default terminals all are dark.
> 
> I have not checked on any of the other flavors of Ubuntu, but at least
> on our main desktop configuration, all terminals have a dark background.
> 
> This seems like a no-brainer, so I was thinking of uploading a fix before
> FeatureFreeze, but I wanted to open up the discussion a bit wider in
> case there are people who feel that this might be too radical of a change.
> 
> The change would be simple.. vim defaults to a light background, so in
> the default vimrc for precise, we'd change it to have background=dark.
> 
> I have CC'd ubuntu-server, because I'm certain there are a lot of users
> of non-Ubuntu desktop platforms who ssh into Ubuntu servers, and would
> possibly be affected by this, whether negatively or positively.
> 

Maybe only making a little difference, but surprisingly Colin found that the
more light colours there are on the screen, the lesser power is consumed[1]. ;)
Of course only on the machine displaying the screen if it is actually a laptop...

-Stefan

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement/PowerSavingTweaks