On 3 March 2010 17:40, Tom H 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.
>
> OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background...
Sun Microsystems SPARC-based workstations
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Chris Jones [2010-03-06 9:52 +1000]:
>> Although I'm an avid fan of a white-on-black terminal theme and agree that
>> it should be the default, I'm not going to add to the argument even more
>> than what's necessary.
>
> It's not necessary indeed -- the ne
Chris Jones [2010-03-06 9:52 +1000]:
> Although I'm an avid fan of a white-on-black terminal theme and agree that
> it should be the default, I'm not going to add to the argument even more
> than what's necessary.
It's not necessary indeed -- the new default theme in Lucid for
terminals is white-
Although I'm an avid fan of a white-on-black terminal theme and agree that
it should be the default, I'm not going to add to the argument even more
than what's necessary.
But the way I look at it; if you're a really keen terminal user, such as
myself who uses both Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 10.04 Server
fre 2010-03-05 klockan 11:33 -0600 skrev Patrick Goetz:
> The number of replies in this silly thread indicates that you guys have
> way too much time on your hands. <:)
Well, it's a classic bikeshed :)
http://grey.bikeshed.com/
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The number of replies in this silly thread indicates that you guys have
way too much time on your hands. <:)
SJ Remnant's response is definitive; time to move on and agree to
disagree. The take away message: is thank heavens for choices and a
curse on any gnome/KDE developers who plan to co
On 03/03/2010 02:20 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Rene Veerman wrote:
>> use a ~/.bash_profile to set your colors?
>
> It's already configurable in gnome-terminal's settings.
> Not sure what you want to put in the .bash_profile to make this work.
>
> Anyway,
On 03/03/2010 03:23 PM, Remco wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H wrote:
>>> 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
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 21:23 +0100, Remco wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H wrote:
> >> 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
That wasn't black, but dark-dark-green ^_^ Although it might be black
between pixels...
> 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, everybod
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:04 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 +
> Bruno Girin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote:
> > >
> > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white t
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 +
Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, 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
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, 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 devote
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 17:40, Tom H wrote:
>> 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
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Rene Veerman wrote:
> use a ~/.bash_profile to set your colors?
It's already configurable in gnome-terminal's settings.
Not sure what you want to put in the .bash_profile to make this work.
Anyway, this discussion is getting a bit old and not of interest to
everyo
use a ~/.bash_profile to set your colors?
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:22 PM, 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.
> Even Linux have CLI terminal like this.
> KDE also.
> But in GNO
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:40 -0500, Tom H 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.
>
> OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background...
True, funny enough their te
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
>> 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.
OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background...
> Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black
> ba
Well, in this case "Everybody" is a big generalisation, as it means
you, doesn't it? :-)
I - too - like the black background and white/light yellow text in
terminals and in text editors, but I won't expect it to be this way by
default. If it is brown on light yellow, but I can customize it in
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:34 +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Shentino wrote:
> > 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 comm
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Shentino wrote:
> 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.
Opinions, opinions.
Everyone
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
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
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,
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