Re: top post fixer?
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:03, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > The fanatics insisted that the background should be black and the text
> > white because that was the "natural" way to view a computer screen. It
> > was the way that it would always remain. Of course, when I went to my
> > office supply store and tried to buy some black paper and white ink they
> > thought I was crazy.
>
> Of course they are. I would, too. Now to explain *your* ignorance.
> Paper is REFLECTIVE. Monitors are PROJECTIVE. What's that mean? It means
> that paper REFLECTS the light that hits it. Without an outside source of
> light you wouldn't see jack on paper. However a monitor PROJECTS light.
> In the absence of all other light you would still see a text on the
> monitor.
Wow! Nice explanation. I have always liked white on black xterms and never was
able to explain why so. Glad to hear that there is a logical reason behind
all this. If this is so, I wonder why gnome, kde chose to have white on black
background as defaults in konsole, gnome-terminal etc., Are those developers
so "reflective" than being "projective"? :-)
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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