Re: Possible rendering bug at 16-bit depth

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 12:07 -0400, John Ellis wrote:
> Jaime wrote:
> > 
> > I recently installed gqview onto my Ubuntu linux system, and found a
> > strange rendering bug which affects images with smooth gradients. As I
> > thought the bug was related to the XFCE desktop, I logged the bug at:
> > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922
> >
> [...]
> > 
> > There's a screenshot at:
> > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=216
> [...]
> >
> > Does anyone here have any ideas?
> 
> 
> You need to change the dithering quality, I am starting to think removing this
> from the GUI preferences was a mistake, or the default should be changed to
> 'best'.
> 
> 
> When GQview is not running, edit $HOME/.gqview/gqviewrc and change the
> dither_quality to 2:
> 
>   dither_quality: 2
> 
> valid values are 0 (none), 1 (normal), 2 (best)
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> John
> 
Thanks John - problem solved. I don't understand how it works, but I'd
agree with changing the default to 2 (best).

Jaime




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