Re: Visual types

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Ian King" <king eiffel com> writes:
> What are the main disadvantages for using a pseudo color visual for all
> applications written in gtk.  Is it that high color images will look all
> messed up or are their other disadvantages?
> 

There's just no real point using a visual other than the default,
ever. Unless your app is written specifically for certain hardware
such as an SGI.

(The only exception is to use the GdkRGB visual for drawables where
you'll draw RGB data, but in GTK 2 this isn't even necessary.)

Havoc