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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 4033@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4033: 23.1; list-colors-display is misleading
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:59:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A78BD5A.8040901@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <363A8C50DA1A48399649F2A7C5336AD3@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams wrote:
>> 16-bit RGB components is what Emacs uses internally, IIRC.  That is
>> the reason we show each one as two letters.
>>     
>
> Is that right? Could you please check about this?
>   
Emacs uses 16 bit components internally, because that is what X uses in 
its APIs. I'm not aware of any graphics driver that allows more than 8 
bit granularity though, and on Windows you are restricted to 8 bit by 
the API anyway.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04 16:01 bug#4033: 23.1; list-colors-display is misleading Drew Adams
2009-08-04 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 18:48   ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 19:40     ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 19:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 19:58         ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 22:59     ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-08-04 23:29       ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 23:42         ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-04 23:55           ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05  3:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-05  5:34               ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05  6:57                 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-05 17:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 23:27   ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-04 21:35 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-04 23:29   ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05  2:25   ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05  2:58     ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05 21:35     ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-05 23:16       ` Drew Adams
2009-08-05  2:36   ` Drew Adams

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