Re: Scoring visuals in GdkRGB

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> writes:

> [CCing Brian Nitz, who opened bug #86540]
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:04, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > What worries me is that I've seen XFree86 advertising true/static-color
> > visuals along with the 8bpp display, but implemented them via colormap
> > switching. 
> > 
> > In fact, I think this is normal for XFree86 in 8bpp.
> 
> Wouldn't that be a server misfeature, then?  It shouldn't advertise
> visuals that it cannot generate without making everything else look
> ugly.

I think the idea is that there might be apps that couldn't handle
pseudocolor visuals, and needed a truecolor visual, however limited.

Regards,
                                        Owen