Re: [gtk-list] Why doesn't GTK support depths < 8 bit?

[Otto Hammersmith <otto redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
> 
> 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?

I do believe that's the case right now.  I don't imagine they much
cared when gtk+ was used only for the gimp... is it really that big of
a problem? (anyone know how much work it would be to fix it?)

-- 
					-Otto.