NCurses

[Nick]

Now are these discolorations due to aricz's ncurses improper color processing fix, or is this just a difference I'm going to see going from x11 to the console no matter what and I should stop complaining?

Um, probably

This looks just like what I get in gcu (Kububtu 7.04).

[aricz]

You're obviously not using:

'sudo tic linux-c-nc.terminfo'
'TERM=linux-c-nc'

Those colors in your screenshots are without the new TERM.