problem getting pseudocolor

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Sep 2 03:45:36 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 
> 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
> 
> > We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed
> > to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick with
> > RGB32bits visual.
> 
> 
> I would guess: shitty, shitty vertical-market proprietary software
> that thinks it's 1990 and DEMANDS 8-bit colour, and won't run in
> 24-bit colour. I've encountered this stuff. Awful, awful. And
> occasionally necessary.

Those who need that should consider working on

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4770


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