Comment 12 for bug 1172402

I always thought the checkerboard pattern was a placeholder. And this micro-milkyway also a placeholder.

If we have to have something then I prefer blank space texture be used as placeholder.

Even better would be nothing until the texture is fully loaded, then just have it snap into view. This is the way to go because some nebula images overlap stars. And with a blank texture you're blacking out that area of the sky with a square.

But whatever the devs decide to do is good enough. I'm just happy that DSO was improved in 0.12.0. And I'd like to see it improved even more.