Re: check my debian package (smarty)..
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 11:06:50PM +0100, Yven Leist wrote:
> 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?
It's 256 colors TOTAL, which means that if there are 10 icons which each
use different colors, there are nearly no colors left for eg. image
viewers.
Frank
> Cheers,
> Yven
>
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