On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 19:55 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > dark terminal backgrounds are good for novelty but not good for > > actually using on a semi-continual basis. > > Can't say that I agree with that, because I believe the opposite. On > CRT and LCDs, I find brightish text on black backgrounds easier to read > than the opposite. Trying to view coloured text against white even > worse. It's really only dark blue text on black that I find hard to > read, but then that's the colour most people's eyesight is worst at. ---- considering that blue is the default colorization for directories in ls, then using a black background for your terminal means that you are going to either have difficulty (and do your best to defeat colorization) or customize it. I don't generally use white backgrounds but tend to use the pastels offered by Konsole and I find the colorization from ls not a problem at all (and sometimes useful). Maybe the Gnome terminal handles things differently. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org