On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:18:18PM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote:
Thanks all, I’ve got what I needed.
Brief results; Big variety in window and text sizes, but very few font and color choices. More than half the terminals seem to be basically default settings.
Well, there's only so many monospace fonts that are beautiful, reasonably unicode-complete, easy on the eyes, programming-friendly AND free (-ish). Also, the default for the most popular terminal emulators on Linux (e.g. xterm, rxvt) is actually a bitmap font.
Finally, 15% seem to be using horrid bitmap console fonts. _How can you stand to look at them?!?!_ (Don't worry, you'll have Plush soon enough...)
Controversial topic there, tread carefully ;) . Lots of folks are borderline militant when it comes to their terminal fonts, whether they're bitmapped or not. Also, white-on-black vs. black-on-white seems to be an emotionally-charged question.