[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-04-05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:24:02 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > But, it does! The colors are very useful!
>>
>> Only on certain terminals.  They're quite unreadable on a white
>> background (which has always been the default for xterm and
>> it's descendants, right?).
>
> Those particular colours are less useful, because they are designed for a
> black background,

But the default background on terminals under X has always been
white (at least as long as I remember).  Are there really a lot
of Gentoo users who just run on the console and don't use X?

> but it is easy enough to change to a more suitable selection.

My point was why default to something that isn't useful for the
standard terminal emulators like xterm, aterm, rxvt, etc.  Are
there common terminal emulators that default to a black
background?

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