Re: bitmap files

[Gerd Moellmann]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:
> >  MB> it seems as if these mono images are hard-wired for given
> >  MB> background (at least, that's how emacs displays them on my color
> >  MB> display; 
> > 
> > I don't understand.  They're drawn with the `1' values in the frame's
> > foreground colour for me.  Isn't that right?
> 
> Actually, since many of the icons are actually little pictures, I'm not
> sure this *is* right (it's the same problem as with xfaces -- they were
> mostly drawn with a black-on-white display in mind, so on a
> white-on-black display, whether they look `correct' has a lot to do with
> the image content:  a picture often looks better when it's drawn with a
> constant set of colors (usually black-on-white) whereas a `graphic'
> often looks better when drawn using the current fg/bg colors.
> 
> But the toolbar background is "grey" on mono displays, which is dithered...
> It seems like in this case the icons will all have solid backgrounds,
> which will look bad...

I just tried with a mono server, and the toolbar image backgrounds are
stippled as they should be (using a grey stipple is the way grey is
simulated on mono displays).  If this fails for you, could be please
tell me details?