On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:53:51PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:11 +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Normal is black background. Don't believe me? Look at tty1 :)
I was thinking that. The first thing I do to any terminal application is set it up for a black background, preferably with green text (unless showing the mentioned dir colours or syntax highlighting)
It would I imagine be hard to come up with a set of colours that work equally well on white backgrounds as well as they do on black. Given that tty1 has a black background and most x term type apps seem to default to white this presents a bit of a problem.
On the other hand it wouldn't be too difficult to offer a pair of default colour schemes.
I've actually been looking at the default scheme in a gdm/gnome desktop instead of my default fvwm2 one and on the gnome desktop it's acceptable. The 'bright' colours aren't actually so bright as they are using fvwm2 and so they work OK on a white/light background. Bright cyan on my fvwm2 terminal windows is unreadable but just looks like bold on gnome.