From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jul 7 04:33:03 2010 Message-ID: From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: References: <998895938.5081871278490912236.JavaMail.root@spooler6-g27.priv.proxad.net> In-Reply-To: <998895938.5081871278490912236.JavaMail.root@spooler6-g27.priv.proxad.net> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:31:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: -------------------------------------------------- From: Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:21 AM To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... >> You are both wrong and right. The VDI "pens" (palette) is global in >> colour-index mode (palette mode). In truecolour modes it's per >> application. > > In fact, it's per VDI virtual workstation, as one application can open > several virtual > workstation at the same time to efficiently switch between workstation > attributes. Yes, you are right. The "global" issue is just a sideeffect of how hardware with colour palettes work. Jo Even