diff -uprN mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in
--- mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in	2017-12-21 13:52:12.555278000 +0100
+++ mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in	2017-12-21 14:21:55.774254866 +0100
@@ -94,22 +94,22 @@
       <description>True if the menubar should be shown in new windows, for windows/tabs with this profile.</description>
     </key>
     <key name="foreground-color" type="s">
-      <default>'#000000'</default>
+      <default>'#E6E6E6'</default>
       <summary>Default color of text in the terminal</summary>
       <description>Default color of text in the terminal, as a color specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a color name such as "red").</description>
     </key>
     <key name="background-color" type="s">
-      <default>'#FFFFDD'</default>
+      <default>'#000000'</default>
       <summary>Default color of terminal background</summary>
       <description>Default color of terminal background, as a color specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a color name such as "red").</description>
     </key>
     <key name="bold-color" type="s">
-      <default>'#000000'</default>
+      <default>'#FFFFFF'</default>
       <summary>Default color of bold text in the terminal</summary>
       <description>Default color of bold text in the terminal, as a color specification (can be HTML-style hex digits, or a color name such as "red"). This is ignored if bold_color_same_as_fg is true.</description>
     </key>
     <key name="bold-color-same-as-fg" type="b">
-      <default>true</default>
+      <default>false</default>
       <summary>Whether bold text should use the same color as normal text</summary>
       <description>If true, boldface text will be rendered using the same color as normal text.</description>
     </key>
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
       <description>Number of scrollback lines to keep around. You can scroll back in the terminal by this number of lines; lines that don't fit in the scrollback are discarded. If scrollback_unlimited is true, this value is ignored.</description>
     </key>
     <key name="scrollback-unlimited" type="b">
-      <default>false</default>
+      <default>true</default>
       <summary>Whether an unlimited number of lines should be kept in scrollback</summary>
       <description>If true, scrollback lines will never be discarded. The scrollback history is stored on disk temporarily, so this may cause the system to run out of disk space if there is a lot of output to the terminal.</description>
     </key>
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
       <description>Sets what code the delete key generates. Possible values are "ascii-del" for the ASCII DEL character, "control-h" for Control-H (AKA the ASCII BS character), "escape-sequence" for the escape sequence typically  bound to backspace or delete. "escape-sequence" is normally considered the correct setting for the Delete key.</description>
     </key>
     <key name="use-theme-colors" type="b">
-      <default>true</default>
+      <default>false</default>
       <summary>Whether to use the colors from the theme for the terminal widget</summary>
       <description>If true, the theme color scheme used for text entry boxes will be used for the terminal, instead of colors provided by the user.</description>
     </key>
diff -uprN mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/profile-editor.c mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/profile-editor.c
--- mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/profile-editor.c	2017-12-21 13:52:12.563278000 +0100
+++ mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/profile-editor.c	2017-12-21 14:31:55.834656182 +0100
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ struct _TerminalColorScheme
 static const TerminalColorScheme color_schemes[] =
 {
 	{
+		N_("White on black"),
+		{ 1, 1, 1, 1 },
+		{ 0, 0, 0, 1 }
+	},
+	{
 		N_("Black on light yellow"),
 		{ 0, 0, 0, 1 },
 		{ 1, 1, 0.866667, 1 }
@@ -60,11 +65,6 @@ static const TerminalColorScheme color_s
 		{ 0, 1, 0, 1 },
 		{ 0, 0, 0, 1 }
 	},
-	{
-		N_("White on black"),
-		{ 1, 1, 1, 1 },
-		{ 0, 0, 0, 1 }
-	},
 	/* Translators: "Solarized" is the name of a colour scheme, "light" can be translated */
 	{ N_("Solarized light"),
 		{ 0.396078, 0.482352, 0.513725, 1 },
diff -uprN mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/terminal-profile.c mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/terminal-profile.c
--- mate-terminal-1.19.0-orig/src/terminal-profile.c	2017-12-21 13:52:12.564278000 +0100
+++ mate-terminal-1.19.0/src/terminal-profile.c	2017-12-21 14:21:55.776254887 +0100
@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ enum
 
 /* Keep these in sync with the GSettings schema! */
 #define DEFAULT_ALLOW_BOLD            (TRUE)
-#define DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR      ("#FFFFDD")
-#define DEFAULT_BOLD_COLOR_SAME_AS_FG (TRUE)
+#define DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_COLOR      ("#000000")
+#define DEFAULT_BOLD_COLOR            ("#FFFFFF")
+#define DEFAULT_BOLD_COLOR_SAME_AS_FG (FALSE)
 #define DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_DARKNESS   (0.5)
 #define DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_IMAGE_FILE ("")
 #define DEFAULT_BACKGROUND_IMAGE      (NULL)
@@ -145,13 +146,13 @@ enum
 #define DEFAULT_DELETE_BINDING        (VTE_ERASE_DELETE_SEQUENCE)
 #define DEFAULT_EXIT_ACTION           (TERMINAL_EXIT_CLOSE)
 #define DEFAULT_FONT                  ("Monospace 12")
-#define DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR      ("#000000")
+#define DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR      ("#E6E6E6")
 #define DEFAULT_LOGIN_SHELL           (FALSE)
 #define DEFAULT_NAME                  (NULL)
 #define DEFAULT_PALETTE               (terminal_palettes[TERMINAL_PALETTE_TANGO])
 #define DEFAULT_SCROLL_BACKGROUND     (TRUE)
 #define DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK_LINES      (512)
-#define DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK_UNLIMITED  (FALSE)
+#define DEFAULT_SCROLLBACK_UNLIMITED  (TRUE)
 #define DEFAULT_SCROLLBAR_POSITION    (TERMINAL_SCROLLBAR_RIGHT)
 #define DEFAULT_SCROLL_ON_KEYSTROKE   (TRUE)
 #define DEFAULT_SCROLL_ON_OUTPUT      (FALSE)
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ enum
 #define DEFAULT_USE_CUSTOM_DEFAULT_SIZE (FALSE)
 #define DEFAULT_USE_SKEY              (TRUE)
 #define DEFAULT_USE_SYSTEM_FONT       (TRUE)
-#define DEFAULT_USE_THEME_COLORS      (TRUE)
+#define DEFAULT_USE_THEME_COLORS      (FALSE)
 #define DEFAULT_VISIBLE_NAME          (N_("Unnamed"))
 #define DEFAULT_WORD_CHARS            ("-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#:_=+@~")
 
