default colors provide bad contrast to default background

I don't realy understand what is going on here. You are logging into hardy from another machine? What is the other machine?

I do not understand your complain either. What you've posted is ls output of your home-directory with the default alias ls='ls --color=auto' set from ~/.bashrc, a setting as far as I'm concerned I do not want to see being disabled.

The background of the terminal as well as the colors allowed for output is a theming issue, which can be adjusted, e.g. in gnome-terminal via the profile-settings. I do not think that the default blue used for directories is very eye-unfriendly, but this is a matter of taste.

you are right, it is working ok. its just the default colors which, imo, are eye unfriendly. a light background should have dark font colors, by default.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in bash.

There is nothing bash can do about this. It does not even know what the background color is.

gnome-terminal sets the background color and it also sets all the other colors.

So, the original complaint is that the default colors of gnome-terminal provide suboptimal contrast to the default background, which is white.

As a workaround for the bug submitter: You could try the other color schemes in gnome-terminal, like rxvt, which have more saturated colors.

may you forward it upstream since youre interested on it? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

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I'd like to suggest a solution for this problem: create an easy way to change those colors, in the same way as the desktop themes. It's easy to find information about HOW to change those colors, but it requires you to set up every color, not really what the average user would enjoy…

If there were some files freely available with the configuration for those colors (I'd call that "themes"), it would be a great help.

closing the report, if someone send it upstream the bug should be reopened, thanks.

Upstream added.

thanks for sent it there, marking this as triaged.

Irrelevant to Ubuntu, since 2010 our theme applies an aubergine colour to the terminal's background, providing high contrast.

Can i ask Ubuntu team to add good Light terminal theme into new 18.04 LTS release? I mean professionally made theme. Because this Tango light or Solarized light looks not really good. Some colors don't go together and barely readable on light background.