Re: check my debian package (smarty)..
On Saturday 04 January 2003 02:33, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> It was 2003-01-03 22:55 when Yven Leist wrote:
> > > from package - only 24 colors for icon is too small.
> >
> > Does anyone know the reason for this limitation? I've looked at the menu
> > info page, but couldn't find anything explanatory there.
>
> I think that it is 8bit color systems - if you have 256 colors then you can
> count each one (when I used AmigaOS I had 4bit grey desktop - every color
> was needed).
Ok, but wouldn't the icon look just the same on an 8-bit system regardless of
wether I do the scaling beforehand with the suggested "mogrify -format xpm
-geometry 32x32 -map cmap.xpm" command or whether the Xserver converts the
icon to 8-bit?
Cheers,
Yven
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