[325] in Athena User Interface
Re: Graphic design meeting 1pm Monday, Zone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Sun Jul 23 18:36:53 2000
To: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, plitwack@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:36:31 -0700
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:03:39 -0400"
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Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> writes:
> > - For taskbar icons and backgrounds, we'd like to seriously limit the
> > number of colors used, so that they look good on 8-bit displays,
>
> You'll probably need to kill the anti-aliasing too. Unfortunately,
> you'll need to do that in a bunch of places probably...
>
I'm not sure suche measures are necessary; GdkRGB should provide
pretty nice dithering down to a limited color cube on low colordepth
displays. It will probably look a lot better than hand-limiting the
colors.
- Maciej
