At Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:16:15 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > 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. >
Actually to give the other point of view, with older, but not too old graphic cards it would have been VERY useful to be able to change color depth. I have an 8MB ati rage mobility M1 (rage pro) which is still rather common in just over the hill machines. It gives reasonable 3D performance with DRI with 16 bpp (managed to play Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament 2003 with it under linux), but for viewing images you can see color artifacts with 16 bpp so switching to 32 bpp is very useful. Since I use swsusp 2 I hardly ever reboot so restarting X kills my million windows setup and starting another server doesn't work well as it is too cumbersome for images and does work for DRI (dri is active but doesn't function well on the second server). With modern more memory then I currently have left in my head video cards its no issue, but there are still laptops with 16 MB video cards being sold which could benefit from changing the color depth. > 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?" > > :) > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jan 23 2005, 13 Shevat 5765 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The path of least resistance is what > http://nadav.harel.org.il |makes rivers and politicians crooked. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
