diff -Naur mate-terminal-1.8.0-old/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in mate-terminal-1.8.0/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in
--- mate-terminal-1.8.0-old/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in	2014-01-26 00:33:17.000000000 +0200
+++ mate-terminal-1.8.0/src/org.mate.terminal.gschema.xml.in	2014-03-14 23:56:15.819113649 +0200
@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@
       <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>'#FFFFFF'</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>
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
       <description>Terminals have a 16-color palette that applications inside  the terminal can use. This is that palette, in the form  of a colon-separated list of color names. Color names  should be in hex format e.g. "#FF00FF"</description>
     </key>
     <key name="font" type="s">
-      <default>'Monospace 12'</default>
+      <default>'Terminus 10'</default>
       <summary>Font</summary>
       <description>An Pango font name. Examples are "Sans 12" or "Monospace Bold 14".</description>
     </key>
@@ -254,12 +254,12 @@
       <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>
     <key name="use-system-font" type="b">
-      <default>true</default>
+      <default>false</default>
       <summary>Whether to use the system font</summary>
       <description>If true, the terminal will use the desktop-global standard font if it's monospace (and the most similar font it can come up with otherwise).</description>
     </key>