Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:43:21 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Penguin logos |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > > - The colors for the 16 color logo are wrong. We used a hack to > > give the logo its own color palette, but this no longer works > > as a side effect of a console color map bug being fixed a while > > ago. The solution is to replace the logo with a new one that > > uses the standard VGA console palette. > > Good idea, but the feet don't look too good. Either dither a bit, > or pick a single color for the feet. Maybe a checkerboard-dither > would get close to the right color without looking grainy. > > > - There are still some politically-incorrect (PI) logos of a penguin > > holding a glass of beer or wine (or perhaps even worse? :-). > > Those also just look bad. The drink sort of floats above the penguin's > foot. It really looks like it was just pasted onto the image. > > The arch-specific logos look bad in general, and the swirly gray > background isn't so great either. Why not use the original image?
I agree fully about the swirly gray - it's just looks ugly chlidish, dilletantic and very tasteless... plain color or some gui alike border would look much better.
> > > Changes: > > 1. Update the frame buffer console code to no longer change the > > palette when displaying the 16 color logo. Remove the tricks > > to load the logo palette in unused palette entries on displays > > with >= 32 colors. > > I used to have only 256 colors on my display. I upgraded because > there still isn't a global system palette. I'd have been happy > enough with 256 colors allocated in a sane way, for kernel & X: > > 1. the 16 VGA colors and extra 4 Windows colors (so Wine can work) > 2. the 216 Netscape colors > 3. gray: 0x00, 0x11, 0x22... 0xff, plus both 0x7f and 0x80 > 4. everything else reserved for future global allocation > > The current situation is way too painful to use. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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