>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> On Friday 22 February 2002 10:56 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Angus> wrote: >> >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Another question: why do we need grayscale/mono rendering? >> >> Shouldn't we just display the figure as well as the display >> >> permits? This seems very complicated for a small gain... >> Angus> Because people ask for it? Anyway, it's about 40 lines of code. >> OK, if it is so short, we can handle that. And how do you make >> sure that we limit the number of colors on 8bits display? Do the >> xpms have a common palette? Angus> No, I have done nothing like that. I suspect that is what John Angus> was talking about with XpmAllocCloseCloseColors, but I'm not Angus> going to investigate further as all woks fine on my TrueColor Angus> display. We will definitely have to investigate this for 1.2.0, since otherwise you will see people with 8bit displays very unhappy. You can always restart your X server in 8bit mode, you know... JMarc
