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

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 11/10/05, Riku Voipio <rvoipio+maemo at movial.fi> wrote:
> 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.

running with XCompiste is also resource waste

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