Bug 14851

Summary:	GNOME terminal default color scheme is bad
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jos Vos <jos>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Jos Vos 2000-07-30 15:43:20 UTC

The default color scheme of a GNOME terminal should change to a light
background and a dark foreground.

Justification:
(1) This is recommended by ergonomists.
(2) The current color scheme makes it just badly readable on many monitors.
(3) It is used by other (GNOME) applications.
(4) It is also used by for example KDE terminals, Windows telnet programs,
etc.

A suggestion that comes in mind is black letters on a white background...

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2001-02-09 20:19:46 UTC

Despite what ergonomicists may or may not say, there are many people on both
sides of the dark-on-light vs light-on-dark preferences. Switching the defaults
would be an arbitrary and unneeded change that would only serve to upset the
half of the earth that doesn't agree with you. The important thing is that it is
easy for a person who wishes to change to do so. That ability already exists in
gnome-terminal.