Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Penguin logos | Date | Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:12:54 -0500 (EST) |
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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?
> 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.
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