Bug 49951
Summary: | colors.inc uses the same names for different colors than X11 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Powertools | Reporter: | David Nečas <yeti> |
Component: | povray | Assignee: | Tim Powers <timp> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 12:44:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
David Nečas
2001-07-25 16:21:28 UTC
Please remember that POV-Ray and its roots go back to 1990 and the Amiga 500. The first X port was for a Sun 3 with a black and white display. X10/X11 was no accepted standard at this time on the desktop platforms! It should in no way be surprising that a program that is available for many different operating systems cannot follow the definitions of all of them. In particular with colors, should colors look different when rendered on Windows, Mac OS, or on a system using X11? The color names and their values are defined so they give good looking images on all operating systems and display managers. Thus, it is not a bug that the colors don't match those of the (one specific?) X11 implementation, but simply an incorrect assumption made by a user. Sigh. Either you interpret it X11 uses different colors than PoV-Ray or PoV- Ray uses different colors than X11 (BTW, X11 colors were considered by W3C for inclusion in the HTML standard, though they were not adopted), the colors are different. I didn't request changing the colors, neither PoV-Ray nor X11, I requested mentioning it somewhere (well, I appended `at least' after that, I'm sorry for that), because it may confuse other people used to X11 colors too. It seems much more logical to mention it in PoV-Ray [UNIX specific?] docs than in X11. Am I asking too much? OK, I'm closing this bug as NOTABUG. However, not-a-bug is not the same as not- a-problem. |