2009/9/2 Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net>: > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: >> 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse <gli...@freedesktop.org>:
>> > We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed >> > to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick with >> > RGB32bits visual. >> I would guess: shitty, shitty vertical-market proprietary software >> that thinks it's 1990 and DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in >> 24-bit colour. I've encountered this stuff. Awful, awful. And >> occasionally necessary. > Those who need that should consider working on > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770 Yeah, it's part of that "20 years' backward compatibility with horrible stuff" problem, and dragging X11 kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century :-) Usually the vertical market software companies in question deal with it by certifying on a very narrow range of OSes, rather than e.g. filing or fixing bugs. Somewhat less than ideal. - d. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg