Bug#692610: gnome-terminal: black text on black background

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 3.4.1.1-2
> 
> The terminal is all black until I uncheck "Use colors from system theme" (it's
> checked by default). So apparently the default colors are black on black.
> That's not a useful color scheme if you ask me. :)
> 
> (Note that I don't have any GNOME packages installed, apart from those that
> are transitively depended/recommended by gnome-terminal.)

I can reproduce this on a 20-computer lab as well, using xfce4 here.

However, I'm somewhat surprised by the fact that this bug was open in
November. Is it really possible that we are shipping a gnome-terminal
having so insane defaults? Or maybe there a missing dependency somewhere?
Perhaps a recommends that should instead be a Depends?

What's the reason why this bug is just "normal", and why there seem to
be so few people having it?

Thanks.