61001 - multiple monitor problem with different bit depths (wrong depth used)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118986

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P4)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

I'm not sure who this bug should go to but at least it will be filed ;-) (yet
another multiple-monitor bug)

The following is reported by Derek Miller on 11/15/2000 at
http://www.macintouch.com/netscape6.html:

One other thing I noticed: At least for me, any Netscape 6 browsing window
defaults to the colour bit depth of my primary monitor, regardless of where I
place the window.

In my case, my main monitor is a 21" greyscale display. I have a second, 15"
colour Trinitron on which I usually run my Web browser -- e-mail stays on the
main one. The problem is, since a greyscale monitor by definition runs at 8-bit
(256 greys or "colours"), Netscape 6 forces its windows to be 8-bit as well,
even when I'm running on a millions-of-colours monitor. So photos and other
graphics -- such as theme elements in the default "Modern" Netscape 6 look --
don't display well, and other colours such as links and headlines shift into odd
hues.

Comment 1

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Setting milestone to future

Comment 2

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Build moving all existing future-P3 bugs to future-P4.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Comments refer only to Mac, so dupping to bug with more info.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118986 ***