[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Bug in Maemo's version of GTK-2.6 (Please nokia-devs look into this)

[From: Riku Voipio]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 11:52, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:15 +0000, ext Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> > I tried it on 7 different Linux desktop systems and it always returns
> > the deth at which the display is running so why should it be different
> > when running on the 770?
>
> There appears to be a bug in the Xserver so that it's claiming to
> support all visuals. Which is of course wrong, it only supports 16-bits.

Xserver claims to support all visuals since it has xcomposite extenstion 
enabled.  If I understand correctly, if there was a composite manager 
running, the non-16bit pixmaps would actually work.  

> Sorry for the confusion. Couldn't (actually still can't) quite see the
> actual problem. Using pixmaps of any depth should be fine, assuming you
> know what you're doing, so the problem is somewhere else?

The problem is that many existing pixmap-using programs do not work without 
major modifications in maemo/n770, and porting measures for pixmap issues are 
not documented anywhere. Also, like mentioned elsewhere, 24bit pixmaps are a 
resource waste.