I upgraded to the gnome-terminal in experimental, and it crashes at startup. I get this message at the console:
** (gnome-terminal:8140): WARNING **: Failed to load Xft font pattern "Andale Mono-12:style=Regular:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=16.1751:encoding=iso8859-1:core=False:antialias=True:index=0:outline=True:scalable=True:rgba=1:render=True:minspace=False", falling back to default font. ** (gnome-terminal:8140): WARNING **: Failed to load default Xft font. I downgraded back to 2.1.0-2. Regarding the poor rendering of white-on-black with the new widget, this is actually a problem throughout all Xft applications. It does not perform the anti-aliasing filter with gamma corrections, so black-on-white looks great but white-on-black looks terrible. Look for a fix in Xft/X/Freetype etc. -jwb
