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Re:Terminology – a new terminal emulator by buster on Monday March 25, 2013 @03:55PM (#5439309)
Why would it be absurd? Do you use a monochrome display? Because, let's face it, black/white is all you need. Or green/white.
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Re:Terminology – a new terminal emulator by __david__ on Monday March 25, 2013 @06:35PM (#5440156)
Because backgrounds (or movies) like the ones shown in the video make the terminal text completely unreadable and reading the text on a terminal is kind of the whole point of it.

Edit: That sounded a little more negative than I meant it. I'm actually a fan of transparent or backgrounds, but I think they need a lot of tint/blur to them or they become distracting and/or make the text unreadable. This was evident in the video where I couldn't read a lot of the grey text once the background picts were enabled.

Though the use case for video still eludes me. :-)

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Re:Terminology – a new terminal emulator by buster on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @03:06PM (#5445363)
I have the feeling that many people are distracted by the bad video. The terminal actually looks like this: http://www.bestubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/eae91__...

It's very clean and nice looking... I don't understand how this is distracting.

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