Why doesn't GTK support depths < 8 bit?

From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe linux zrz TU-Berlin DE>
To: gtk-list redhat com
Subject: Why doesn't GTK support depths < 8 bit?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:14:40 +0200


Hi,

I am surprised to see that GTK only supports 
    
   possible_depths[5] = { 32, 24, 16, 15, 8 }

bit deep displays. 

Why that? It may be difficult to support 1bpp screens (dithering), but
what about 4bpp pseudocolor visuals?

Does GTK really need 256 differend colours?


Jost

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