Re: White-on-black terminal should be default
My personal opinion is that the default should be gray on black like the vc. For some reason the terminal colors just work better that way, particularly with midnight commander in a shell in a term. my two cents. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Derek Broughton wrote: > Fred . wrote: > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > > Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. > > Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a > black > background. It's ergonomically very bad. I never use such a terminal > except in Windows, where I haven't figured out (nor spent enough time to > need to) how to change it. > > > Even Linux have CLI terminal like this. > > KDE also. > > But in GNOME and xterm are black text on white background. > > > > Why? > > That is not how a terminal should look! > > > > Change the default colors to be white text on black background! > > That is a very bad idea, imo. > -- > derek > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: White-on-black terminal should be default
Fred . wrote: > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this. Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black background. It's ergonomically very bad. I never use such a terminal except in Windows, where I haven't figured out (nor spent enough time to need to) how to change it. > Even Linux have CLI terminal like this. > KDE also. > But in GNOME and xterm are black text on white background. > > Why? > That is not how a terminal should look! > > Change the default colors to be white text on black background! That is a very bad idea, imo. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: White-on-black terminal should be default
Fred . [2010-02-19 13:22 +0100]: > Change the default colors to be white text on black background! That should entirely depend on the theme you select. Why should a light theme, where you have dark text on light bg everywhere suddenly swap the colors for the terminal? If you work during daylight, black text on light background is ergonomically much better, and also much more effective on a TFT (doesn't matter so much on CRTs). Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss