Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > 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.
However, in some situations, LCDs are not particularly light emitting. For example, if using a laptop in direct sunlight, even with a pretty good LCD, black on white will tend to be more readable. Personally, I feel this hardcoding of colors in the application is a downside of X. An ideal system for me would be able to adapt the primary foreground and background colors, so that I could switch from the white on black I prefer outdoors, to the black on white I sometimes need outdoors, to the red on black I prefer when I'm outside at night and want to use the computer with a starry "background". -- see shy jo
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