Description
I tried the Solarized colorscheme in both gnome-terminal and uxterm, and I ran into one major problem: Solarized seems to use several of the standard terminal colors (notably bright green and bright blue) as its "base" colors, which makes them lighter/darker versions of the base colors rather than the intended terminal colors. Notably, this means that many standard uses of terminal highlighting, such as the use of color in prompts or ls, will use the base colors rather than something distinctive.
I noticed this particularly with ls: normally, ls highlights directories in bright blue, and executables in bright green, but both of those became variants of the base color, making them much less distinctive except for the use of bold. In particular, executables prove almost completely indistinguishable from normal files, and directories appear bold but not distinguishable by color.
I like the colorscheme in general, and in particular I like that all of the same colors work in both the light and dark versions. However, the use of colors other than black and white (and their bright variants) as base colors breaks the expectations of normal terminal applications.