[CF-Devel] It is time to get rid of xpms and xbms

[Chris Lusena]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      On Wed, 23 May 2001, Chris Lusena wrote:
     
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      > I think that the major resistance is to those of us with lower
     
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      > graphics than 1024x728x 24 bit color, or is it 16 bit color?
     
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       Realistically, the number of bits isn't really important.  While the
     
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      graphics will look best with 16+ bit displays, it should still work on
     
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      8 bit displays (it does some primitive color matching, which works,
     
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      but images won't look as good, just as what happens with any reduced
     
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      color mechanism)
     
     
I've used the current color matching 1.0.0 and I can say that the color
matching is _very_bad_ IMHO, in fact I find it so bad as to limit
playablity. I've switch _back_ to xpm from png because the color
matching is so bad, even though since I have sufficient resolution 
I prefer the bigger tiles. Though I am on a sun which I believe are
know for bad X implementations and poor color control, so it could
be something odd my system.


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