Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:45:38 +1000 From: "Andrew D. Boyd" <decado@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall colours Message-ID: <4AD7C232.3020609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091011142923.GT71731@hoeg.nl> References: <permail-20091009195242f0889e8400003710-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <3a142e750910100150g7459e037u7b84b4b4bbc2bf8@mail.gmail.com> <20091011142923.GT71731@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten wrote: > * 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 > My God that is hideous. Save us Ed! Three cheers for your recent console work.
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