Default appearance settings
Ed Porter
I could make Menlo the default on Mac OS 10.6, but Terminator's default antialiasing setting is 'off', which looks poor. It should probably always be on on Mac OS, assuming nobody turns "Turn off font smoothing for font sizes <n> and smaller" all the way to 12 in their system preferences. I think the default there is 6. Otherwise it's always on; you just get a choice of LCD-style antialiasing or old-fashioned antialiasing. Turning on antialiasing, though, gives the traditional 'not quite as good as it should be' look when it's not black text on white.
This really demands pictures, so they are attached. You can tell which is which.
My twin recommendations from these are:
i) turn on antialiasing by default for Mac OS because it looks awful without, and Mac users are all about the eye candy as we know. It's unfortunate that we can't interrogate the default settings that Java will use until we have a Graphics2D to draw on, although this far into the 21st century you could argue that the default should be switched on, and you can turn it off if you're from 1970.
B) don't use xwsh-style defaults; Terminal.app-style defaults are probably more appropriate here, but possibly not elsewhere. Xterm, rxvt, konsole, gnome-terminal; aren't they all black-on-white until you tell them not to be?
(My own user preference is for the black-on-cream preset, but I don't suggest that as the default).
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Martin Dorey
> Xterm, rxvt, konsole, gnome-terminal; aren't they all black-on-white until you tell them not to be?
They are for me, and I doubt I'd bother to reconfigure them. So +1 for that suggestion.
> i) turn on antialiasing by default for Mac OS
Anti-aliasing is looking good for me, providing I use black on white, on Linux and Windows too, so I'd vote for enabling it by default everywhere.
If I used a Mac at work, I'd share my home directory with Linux. Perhaps that wouldn't cause a problem, as long as I didn't explicitly change that particular setting.
Elliott Hughes
in the past i've argued that the xwsh look was part of Terminator's style,
and worth keeping just as a sort of brand, but, five years on, it doesn't
look like anyone's in a hurry to do a good job of light-on-dark
anti-aliasing, anti-aliasing is ubiquitous, and it's starting to be a
liability. oh, yeah, and i personally use black-on-cream too, which is one
way i know at least one other user thinks of the xwsh look as being
fundamentally "Terminator" --- they were genuinely shocked to see i used a
different color scheme. "but it's the best thing about Terminator!"...
"well, apart from the search. and the history. and all the other cool
stuff."
changing the defaults only affects new users (and new installs) anyway,
and we have a pretty good choice of presets these days, plus support for
arbitrary color schemes. and judging by the number of people who use
black-on-white (not to mention Courier!) in other terminal emulators, i
get the feeling most people don't care. we should probably make the Linux
palette the default though; ANSI yellow just doesn't show up against
white.
so, yeah, +1 to making "Menlo" override "Monaco" if available, and +1 to
making black-on-white + anti-aliasing the default on all platforms.
--elliott
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Ed Porter
On 29 Jan 2010, at 08:00, Elliott Hughes wrote:
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> so, yeah, +1 to making "Menlo" override "Monaco" if available, and +1 to
> making black-on-white + anti-aliasing the default on all platforms.
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That's two 'yes' (three if you count me) and no 'no', so I've done it.
Only new users/installs will see the difference, because they wont yet have ~/.terminator/settings to override the defaults.
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