It is always good to see people using the application I helped to write! I’d like to comment about terminal colors. There is an open bug about it, we’re planning to support at least tango scheme, if you want to follow the evolution of this task, look at [0].

I’d like to comment Tiago Rodrigues’ comment to. We started a new project for two reasons:

1 -> Gabriel was learning python and tilda is writen in C.
2 -> I love gnome so my work (I “think” that gabriel and other guake contributors think the same) so I prefer to follow its standards and recomendations, like the human interface guidelines and tilda does not seem to follow that stuff.

But I understand what you say about working together to make a better software than everyone starts a new project. (this makes part of our second reason, we love gnome, so we want to use its stuff =)

[0] http://trac.guake-terminal.org/ticket/51

Jokes aside, I don’t think anyone called Guake a new project, nor in the sense of age, nor in the sense of a new concept. In fact you’ll find Yakuake and Tilda referenced on the official homepage of Guake:

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake).

That said, what’s the problem ?

http://tilda.sourceforge.net

btw, there is an option to make it integrate with the gnome-terminal preferences. I suspect it’s a bit buggy, but it does work.