From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Jun 7 06:36:10 2009 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:35:02 +0200 From: Thomas Binder To: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES colour icon preference in >=16bpp? Message-ID: <20090607093502.GA24216@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de> Mail-Followup-To: mint MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-PMX-TU: seen v0.62 by 5.5.3.366731, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.0.366912, Antispam-Data: 2009.6.7.92544 X-PMX-SPAMCHECK: outgoing mail X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:30:52PM +0200, Peter Persson wrote: > Have I missed something fundamental, or does XaAES prefer 4-bit > icons over 8-bit ones when running in hi/true colour? > > I've noticed this in Thing and Taskbar. Wouldn't it be better if > it used the 8-bit ones? At least Thing uses its own color icon routines, which (up to and including version 1.27) are only able to use 8-bit icons with 8-bit color depths (as far as I remember, this is due to difficulties in transfering an 8-bit bitmap into a true color bitmap with correct colors). Later on (i.e. for the "latest" beta, 1.29beta), the color icon routines where enhanced to use vr_transfer_bits() for this case, but as this is an NVDI 5 enhancement, it only works if the current VDI supports it. Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request!