On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:00:02PM -0400, Patrick O'Donnell wrote: > Speaking of which -- the applications I'm maintaining are wedded to > using a writable color map, which has always been PseudoColor, which, > as you point out, pretty much means 8-bit. I've been toying with > expanding the apps' repertoire to accepting a DirectColor visual, but > I've noticed that not a lot of servers actually offer one. Would I be > wasting my time adding in the necessary support for DirectColor? > (Supporting TrueColor, alas, would be a royal pain, given the design > of the apps.)
You would be. On the other hand, are you sure supporting DirectColor is any easier than TrueColor? The hard part, supported >255 color numbers, seems to be identical, and the 3 per-color palettes don't allow for much in terms of color animation. OG. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
