Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > Hi all, > > Just looking through a few things, and I thought I'd ask whether fvwm needs to > stlil support color limiting, and color depths for XServers with less than > TrueColor? > > These days, 24-bit seems to be the standard, and indeed, I've never yet come > across a server still using only 256 colours. Whilst I appreciate you can > still go and find such things, do we actually need fvwm to supprort it?
It's not the server, it's the hardware in the workstation graphics card. Back when I was using Sun hardware it was required. I put the original code in that tried to force colors to familiar named colors with the idea that colors with common names would be already be in use. A while later the old code was ifdef'd with the current color cube logic. I think there is no risk in removing the common name logic but that won't reduce executable size. I don't think the color limiting stuff is large enough to make any difference. If you think otherwise, consider making it a build option. -- Dan Espen
