White background terminals harm my eyes.
I cant think on anybody spending lot of time on a white background terminal. Its anti natural.
As a funny note. All non-advanced users tell me that this black terminal have aome text they cant delete. (the prompt)
Looks like the plan9 terminal will be less unusable or at most less logical to people not used to terminals.
Another point is that a friend of me who is a designer explained me the reason why white bg with black text is better for reading .. But I cant still realize this is a good reason.. Maybe i cant hub because i started typing on black terminals on 40x25 screens many years ago.
The first white bg terminal was on a apple quadra 650 running netbsd. It was the least painful experience with a slow framebuffer terminal. But managed to compile gdb after 3 days of compilation (least of the time was running the configure scripts..) but thats another story..
On 07/06/2011, at 18:01, Le Tian <tianeast_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <suckmore_AT_benizi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Le Tian wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
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> [...] (I find inverting the colours actually helps to a worrying degree.)
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> Interesting... Yeah, "I find inverting the colours actually helps to a worrying degree." I think this should be a default in all linux distros, due a phycological factor.)
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> Inverting the colors = light text on dark background?
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> And the dark background is more scary? I'd have expected exactly this, but maybe I've been conditioned by movies to think that dark terminals are 'leet'. To me, light backgrounds feel warmer and less natural, dark ones feel less cold and mechanical.
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> Best,
> Ben
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> I thought he meant light background and dark font. This actually was implemented in opensuse, when I just started my journey with linux. Suse KDE konsole has light background by default. And it feels more tense I guess)
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> Tian
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