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I tend to use a light to medium grey on black because I don't like the mega contrast of white on black. But for the purpose of your survey, I answered 'white on black'.
I remember making the switch from black on white. I was working a contract job with ungodly hours and my eyes were pretty much always red and irritated. I started to notice certain colors on the screen were particularly irritating so I started to fiddle with the color scheme and eventually ended up with the light on black scheme.
It was astonishing how much it helped my eyes.
Eclipse: black on white Terminal: white on black I tried to go black on white all the way a while ago, because it is annoying to switch between eclipse + websites and the terminal. It seems however that the default gnome-terminal palette and most programs are optimized for white on black. With a lot of effort I found an acceptable 256-color scheme for terminal vim, but I gave up and reverted when the output "ack" bec…
I go Solarized http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
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Well, light or dark? I go Solarized Light.
Light, which I voted for. Been using it for >1yr and so far so good, more soothing to look at. You?
I go Solarized http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
I have this (perhaps mistaken) notion that when I'm staring at a screen for 12 hours straight, it's better for my eyes to be looking at a mostly dark screen than a mostly lit one. At the very least, thanks to that link a year ago about how google would save electricity for the world by adopting a black background, I know that I'm saving the environment!
( http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-... ) I'd be interested to see figures for modern monitors.
I've found that black on white works better (for me) in daylight, and white on black in a dark room.