Comment 3 for bug 87966

I just compiled screen with 256 color support, and now I am one happy camper. Gnome-terminal, xterm, and quite a few others all have 256 color support now, so it makes sense to compile screen with support for 256 colors.

To actually use 256 colors you need to make some changes to your screenrc, so I don't see how turning this on could possibly hurt (since it isn't enabled by default). Please turn on support for this in Edgy.