Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:50:14 -0700
"Suraj N. Kurapati" <sunaku_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 09:26:08 PM PDT, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:09:25 +0200 pancake wrote:
> > > White background terminals harm my eyes.
> > >
> > > I cant think on anybody spending lot of time on a white
> > > background terminal. Its anti natural.
> >
> > I've been through a lot of (old) screens and I have to say it
> > depends on screen and font.
>
> I agree. Newer trends, like the Solarized color scheme[1], seem to
> favor thick fonts with supplemental anti-aliasing, such as DejaVu
> Sans Mono. Using bitmapped and inherently aliased fonts, such as
> Tamsyn[2], with such color schemes is not as good[3]. Instead, I
> find that they are much easier to read on a dark background[4].
>
> [1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
> [2]: http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/
> [3]: http://ompldr.org/vOHo2Nw
> [4]: http://ompldr.org/vOHo2YQ
>
> --
> E Pluribus Unix

If I may say so on brief acquaintance with it, that's a well-made bitmap font, that is.
Received on Wed Jun 08 2011 - 23:11:52 CEST