[1933] in testers
New Motif/color produces apparent degradation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kcunning@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 26 11:48:28 1992
From: kcunning@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-olh@Athena.MIT.EDU, lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU, vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU,
Date: Tue, 26 May 92 11:47:44 EDT
[I'm on a VAXstation 3100]
In covering the OLH issue [see my previous message], I noticed that lots of
the graphical aspects of the OLH display seem fuzzier in 7.4 than they did in
7.3. For example, the toggle square next to the Use External Viewers item on
the Options menu is not at all as crisp as in 7.3; the elements of all the
scrollbar displays are also not as crisp; etc.
I'm not sure what this is due to. I suspect it's the support of color (rather
than just a newer version of Motif), and that what I'm seeing is the fuzziness
caused by seeing several different colors all rendered as black/white on my
screen.
Is this effective LOSS of graphical clarity on non-color systems necessary in
order to support color for higher-end workstations? Can't we compile
non-color versions of applications for non-color workstation types? (Maybe
workstations aren't "color" or "non-color" per se, but we can talk realities
on campus anyway). I'm wondering whether this is an issue that lots of
applications have to deal with, and what a standard solution might be.
As for OLH, if we can't have different compiled versions, I would like to have
the color features that make non-color versions fuzzy pulled out; I don't want
any evident degradation in quality for any current users of OLH.
Thanks,
--Kevin
