Re: [gtk-list] Re: Adding support for 4 bit color

[Walt Pohl <pohl math washington edu>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Shawn T. Amundson wrote:

> The list of possible types isn't related to the depths directly,
> and as far as I can tell this is just gotton from the Xserver, which
> makes the patch to gdk extremely trivial.

It uses the list of possible types to decide what's the "best" visual
type.  So for 8 bits, if it can, it uses PseudoColor, and for
more than 8 bits it uses DirectColor (or TrueColor, I forget).  So as it
stands, for 4 bits, it'll return DirectColor as the "best" visual type.  I
think that it should return PseudoColor for anything below 8 bits, while
Owen Taylor thinks it should be StaticColor.  It could be that no X server
tries to use DirectColor for 4 bits (a 1x1x1 color cube?), so maybe it
doesn't matter.

About the depths question:  how many depths should it allow?  I guess 32
would be the safest. :-)

Walt