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.
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