Changing color depth on the fly ?

[Vedran Rodic]

I would beg to differ, but that will have to wait my example
implementation of depth changing for the randr interface (if I ever
get to it). Changing of colour depths on the fly is important for
embedded machines, and possibly in the future for devices that will
support more than 8 bits for colour components.

How this should work is pretty much described in the original randr
paper from Keith. I guess it was never implemented because other
things had bigger priority.


On 7/27/07, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net> wrote:
> This was one of the original features of the randr extension. I think the main
> reason to drop it at the time was that it made life complicated for toolkits
> like GDK / QT. Further these days there's not really a need for depth
> switching. Some drivers like the ones from ATI even only offer 24bit. In
> terms of video memory and performance there's no real need for less.
>
> Roderick Colenbrander