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 > > -- > > Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.leist.beldesign.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
