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Re: colors



On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Akshay Srinivasan wrote:

> What are the problems you would have if you wanted to increase the number of
> available colors beyond 30 and is this possible?

Number of 30 colors is more like policy that techical solution.
Most people run X with PseudoColor visual having 256 colors
available. Well behaved X application does not eat all the colors
from shared colormap, because there is many applications running
on same time. Application can instead use installed private
colormap, but then there is flash-technocolor effect when moving
from and to application window.

Those 30 colors are "standard" to prevent ,say, color explosion
in pixmaps, there are over 2000 pixmap, and possibility the
sum of different colors run over 256 is very likely without
controlling.

I think the number of colors can be increased to about 128
colors with new "standard".

<A HREF="http://www.lut.fi/~hevi/">Petri.Heinila@lut.fi</A>