Package: raggle
Version: 0.3.2-1
Severity: normal

When I specify Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE as a background color in my
config.rb color_palette, the resulting background is grey instead of
white.

My terminal background is already white:

   % cat ~/.Xresources
   XTerm*Foreground: black
   XTerm*Background: white

Other programs that succesfully maintain the black background include
mutt, links, and snownews. Mutt's color configuration allows "default"
to be specified, which maintains the current background color rather
than overriding it. This might be one way to resolve this issue.

Following is my config.rb, which may facilitate reproduction of this
problem.

thanks,
Charles


$config = {
  # color palette (referenced by themes)
  'color_palette'         => [
    [  1, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  2, Ncurses::COLOR_RED,      Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  3, Ncurses::COLOR_GREEN,    Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  4, Ncurses::COLOR_BLUE,     Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  5, Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA,  Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  6, Ncurses::COLOR_CYAN,     Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [  7, Ncurses::COLOR_YELLOW,   Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [ 11, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [ 12, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_RED     ],
    [ 13, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_GREEN   ],
    [ 14, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_BLUE    ],
    [ 15, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 16, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_CYAN    ],
    [ 17, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_YELLOW  ],
    [ 21, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE   ],
    [ 22, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_RED     ],
    [ 23, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_GREEN   ],
    [ 24, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_BLUE    ],
    [ 25, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 26, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_CYAN    ],
    [ 27, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_YELLOW  ],
    [ 31, Ncurses::COLOR_WHITE,    Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 32, Ncurses::COLOR_RED,      Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 33, Ncurses::COLOR_GREEN,    Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 34, Ncurses::COLOR_BLUE,     Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 35, Ncurses::COLOR_BLACK,    Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 36, Ncurses::COLOR_CYAN,     Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
    [ 37, Ncurses::COLOR_YELLOW,   Ncurses::COLOR_MAGENTA ],
  ]
}

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (90, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages raggle depends on:
ii  irb                    1.8.1-8           Interactive Ruby (irb)
ii  libncurses-ruby1.8     0.9.1-1           Ruby Extension for the ncurses C l
ii  librexml-ruby1.8       1.8.1+1.8.2pre4-1 pure Ruby non-validating XML parse
ii  libyaml-ruby1.8        1.8.1+1.8.2pre4-1 YAML for Ruby 1.8
ii  links                  0.99+1.00pre12-1  Character mode WWW browser
ii  ruby                   1.8.1-8           An interpreter of object-oriented 

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