Bug#368285: incompatible color
Package: xterm
Version: 210-3
Severity: normal
It's coming up as black-on-white now.
I realize that this is all sophisticated-looking, and I realize
that that are arcane ways to configure this, but...
We have gnome-terminal for people who don't care about
compatibility with the real thing and probably hate it too.
Many terminals did have a black-on-white option, but I've
never seen anybody using it. No matter what the terminal
(true VT100, VT101, VT102, Wyse 50/60, VT220, VT320,
VT510, VT525, Linux console, Sun console) I've never seen
black-on-white actually used.
The apps tend to break, especially when they try to use
the newer color features. Text becomes unreadable.
Think cyan-on-white and yellow-on-white. Eeeew. I won't
even see white-on-white.
White-on-black is good.
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