[rescue] Weird Silicon Graphics o2 graphics issues

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Thu Oct 2 13:52:50 CDT 2003


On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:30:53PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
>> Does mozilla use private color map on a 8-bit X by default?
>
> No.
>
I never understood really why X was designed in this broken way.  Why 
"use-up" colors at all?... A little bit of extra logic and you could 
display all visible apps with any color they want.  I think even early 
versions of Windows did this so X is not alone.

Andrew



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