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List:       kde
Subject:    Re:Color Depth & newbies.
From:       David Sweet <dsweet () chaos ! umd ! edu>
Date:       1997-08-27 19:47:21
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Shane Simmons wrote:

> >On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Stephan Meyer wrote:
> >
> >> Why make it worse if it can be made better? Why do we need to virtually
> >> lock out the majority? IMHO most people are using 8bit.
> >

> >At any rate, if you want KDE to be attractive to newbies it's going to
> >need to look good in 8bpp without making netscape look terrible.
> 
> AMEN!  :^)

Maybe a netscape8pp.kdelnk file could be included in the distributions
which starts "netscape -install".  This might cut down on a lot of these
questions.  (Of course, a note should be made somewhere explaining this
file and the colormap-swapping effect.)

David Sweet

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