Comment 14 for bug 103929

Well, right: because, as the bug indicates, gnome-terminal advertises itself as xterm rather than xterm-color.

So, for some terminals (xterm itself, perhaps?), color will be on by default, while in others it will be off. Better to make it consistently one way or the other for _all_ color-capable term emulators.

If you'd like to apply the patch, but comment _out_ the whole block of code, that seems fine (might irk a few non-gnome-terminal users that had been used to it, but I kind of doubt it: they can just uncomment it, and anyway they've hopefully already customized their .bashrc the way they like it, so wouldn't be affected by /etc/skel).