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 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Click to compare & save $100's on life insurance, free quote http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJkoHmPFyOi4TALHuwhx0dNXqUM/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
