>From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <mic...@daenzer.net> >Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:45:36 +0200 >Sender: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org > >On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: >> 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse <gli...@freedesktop.org>: >> ... DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in 24-bit colour. ... > >Those who need that should consider working on > >http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770
Indeed. A four-year-old bug report (priority: High). Then we have: >Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:09:49 +0100 >From: David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > >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. Yes, on both sides of the coin. And, >Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:41:36 +0100 >From: David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > >I would guess: shitty, shitty ... Awful, awful. And >occasionally necessary. Those tasked with maintaining "old" software that was written when 8-bit frame buffers were expensive, but which is still used in critical applications have the same lack-of-time and prioritization issues that X developers have. I'd think that a bit more charity could be shown to those also struggling in the trenches. Different trenches -- same struggle. - Pat _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg