Re: Support 24-bit terminals

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 06:42:00PM +0000, Maël Nison wrote:
> > Suppose that you had to deal with people who select facts to make them
> appear
> different from an unbiased presentation?  Apparently it's outside your
> experience.
> 
> That seems a bit rude and uncalled for, Thomas.

I've been getting a lot of harassment over this issue.
If you add to it, that's not going to be productive.
 
> I haven't wrote this list, nor I have contributed to improve it, but it
> seems to me it does a pretty good job explaining which terminal currently
> support truecolors, and which don't. It also clearly states which
> applications support it, and which (major) applications don't. All in all,

no - I'm not the only one to notice that it counts all of the
front-ends to VTE as if they were independent implementations,
as well as tossing in some _different_ programs as if they
were commonly used.  Call it what you like, I'm not going to
have any further discussion on that topic.

> it seems pretty objective and relies mainly on facts. Things your previous
> posts actually lack, otherwise I wouldn't have took the time to ask you
> further clarifications.
> 
> 
> Le lun. 20 févr. 2017 à 18:22, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:30:49PM +0000, Maël Nison wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 06:40:47PM +0300, Rami Ylimäki wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > According to [1], 24-bit terminals have become a de facto standard.
> > > >
> > > > The source is worthless.
> > >
> > > Can I ask why? Do you imply that the terminal emulators do not actually
> > > support 24-bit colors, and that the referenced gist lies?
> >
> > Suppose that you had to deal with people who select facts to make them
> > appear
> > different from an unbiased presentation?  Apparently it's outside your
> > experience.
> >
> > I'm not interested in discussing it, since I pointed out my side of it long
> > ago, have gotten exactly no useful discussion before or after.
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> >

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