[4061] in testers
Re: update_ws, rel-notes, printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu May 20 14:23:31 1999
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 13:15:46 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:23:19 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> > After restarting in 8-bit mode the option is still available and
> > there's no obvious way to tell it's in 8-bit mode (if a user hits it
> > and walks away from the machine). There should be an obvious option
> > to go back to 24 once in 8.
>
> This was definitely a case where I did not bother to dot all the i's
> and cross all the t's. Presenting different menu options from xlogin
> depending on the X mode is not a trivial thing. I expect the 8-bit
> option to be used very rarely; it's only there to provide a workaround
> for the occasional piece of software which can't handle a 24-bit
> visual.
A somewhat helpful compromise which would be easy to do would be to add
another menu option to "Restart X" (i.e. in the default mode).
Bob
