Hi Bruno, "Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_van_dooren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > will the OBOS terminal have configurable color schemes like with > linux? The original BeOS terminal already has configurable color schemes. You'll find it in the menu under "Color..." - there you can set the colors of the background, selected text, the cursor, ... > the reason i ask is that although i still think that a system should > be > completely manageable by GUI, > I have grown fond of vi. it really sucks to learn it, but once you > know it > it is powerful. > however in BeOS the terminal is really really boring. Depends on your needs - for me, the BeOS terminal is perfect (the only addition that would make sense to me would be tabs) :-) > it is sad that you need a terminal for it, but porting xvim seems a > lot of > work. We already have our own terminal application. The authors of MuTerm has graciously donated their terminal application to us, including a change of the license. Just have a look at it, if it suits your needs - if not, we can always exhance it (but be sure to contact its maintainer about it). Adios... Axel.