Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-02 Thread Shentino
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: > > > Ever

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-02 Thread Derek Broughton
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 t

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Pitt
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,