Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:29:23 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Subject: Re: sysinstall colours Message-ID: <20091011142923.GT71731@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750910100150g7459e037u7b84b4b4bbc2bf8@mail.gmail.com> References: <permail-20091009195242f0889e8400003710-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <3a142e750910100150g7459e037u7b84b4b4bbc2bf8@mail.gmail.com>
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--jZNlLGxhPb4urluq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > This have nothing to do with ncurses, colors you like simple can not > be displayed in current syscons(4) and making support for 256 colors > or even true bit color in sysinstall(so that it looks amazing in > konsole) is waste of time. Yes. As of recently, our terminal emulator gained 256 color support, but this gets smashed down to 8 colors, simply because Syscons cannot handle more than 16 foreground and 8 background colors. This is how colors are converted: http://80386.nl/pub/xterm-256.png http://80386.nl/pub/teken-256.png --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --jZNlLGxhPb4urluq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrR68MACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUihACeOP1eVfV5fEpiRcT5m/dDGil8 jhEAn0j7EalAHPPP26T1cU+crKgyzBUP =FOYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jZNlLGxhPb4urluq--
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