default frontground contrast is too low

[Qianqian Fang]

I uses xubuntu and gnome-terminal is not installed by default (I assume kubuntu is the same). In this case, terminator starts with black background and foreground color #AAAAAA, the contrast is actually very low, making the text difficult to read.

As the default foreground color, I suggest it to use white, or even #EEEEEE. After all, the highlighted text only accounts for a tiny fraction of chances to be displayed when using terminal, and it is not worthwhile to make eyes uncomfortable for the rest >99% of the cases.

Just to compare with other terminals, xfce4-terminal already uses solid white as the default foreground color. gnome-terminal uses a white background and a gray color for foreground, it is tolerable than #AAAAAA over black.

(by the way, applying a per window color settings failed for terminator under Lucid, when gnome-terminal is installed)

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

hmm. I deliberately chose #AAAAAA on #000000 to avoid the unpleasant high contrast of #FFFFFF on #000000. I'm not really sure I want to increase the default contrast, but I never considered #a-on-#0 to be difficult to read.

[Qianqian Fang (fangq)]

well, the perception of the problem certainly varies from person to person, or even varies from monitor to monitor, font to font. Will #CCC an acceptable contrast for you? #AAA may be ok for some people, but certainly at the lower end of the acceptable range.