On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Matan Ziv-Av wrote about "Re: rant: changing color depth":
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:42:48PM -0500, Offer Kaye wrote:
> >><rant>
> >>Year: 2005
> >>Desktop: KDE 3.3.1
> >>OS: Mepis Linux
> >>Ability to change color depth: nil. nada. ziltch. Unless I want to
> 
> Why would you want to change colour depth?

I agree. A color depth is something you typically choose once, based on the
capabilities of your graphic card, and should have absolutely no reason to
change it during nomal operation. So sure, it would be nice you *could*
change it on the fly, but the fact you can't isn't so terrible.

And if you want to compare this to the "other" OS - Microsoft Windows: isn't
that the operating system where many times after install/uninstall (a much
more common operation than color depth change), and many other benign things
require you to... reboot? That is actually worse than just needing to restart
X (especially for server machines). Windows the OS on which the joke goes

  "Windows detected your mouse has moved; Reboot now for the change to
   take effect?"

:)

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