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? The X server will convert the icon to 8-bit: it won't convert it to 24 colors, or even know which 24 colors to convert to. This means that leaving it to the X server to do the conversion wil rapidly exhaust the color map for no good reason. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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