Colorfull gnome terminal

Most popular distro Ubuntu in current version 10.04 comes with gnome terminal as default. But colors have gone. Gnome terminal uses colors for ls listing. But to less.
Edit your .bashrc

"gedit ~/.bashrc"

Allow force_color_prompt=yes, probably just remove opening #

"force_color_prompt=yes"

I altered the color schema as well. I like white on black background.

"Edit -> Profile settings -> Colors" - choose your desired built-in scheme or make your own