re colors and x windows aicons excerpts from netnews comp windows x may re colors and x windows a john cwikla morrison wri the problem is that we need solutions for applications now and although i would love to have most of the things mentioned here somebody has to write it what i d like to see is this scenario each widget view whatever describes it s colors via a palette palettes can be shared and they only contain descriptive information they are not directly tied to the object that uses them palettes are held in the server a palette can accomadate up to the number of hardware color cells of color descriptors when the input focus is in a particular widget that widget has access to all of the colors that are described in its associated palette all other widgets transiently get the closest approximation that can be generated by a union of the colors from the current palette and any free colors that are left over a widget specifies a color for imaging by providing an index pixel into its associated palette the bold part above is hard and would need to be done in the server
