[Freeciv-Dev] Re: monochromatic Freeciv (was: (PR#2455) dead functions in GUI interface)

["Cameron Morland via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 06:11:47PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> > 
> > [rfalke - Wed Dec 18 13:38:01 2002]:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:46:41PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The attached patch removes some dead functions from the GUI interface. 
> > > > These functions are never called by the client code, and are not
> > > > implemented for most GUIs.  Some GUIs implement some of them (used
> > > > internally), and some GUIs have stub implementations.
> > > > 
> > > > Without fixes for the GUIs, this is incomplete.  Patches are welcome.
> > > 
> > > > -enum Display_color_type get_visual(void);
> > > 
> > > What is the status here? Do we support greyscale and/or
> > > black-and-white displays? There is a message in the xaw client "only
> > > color displays supported" but no exit.
> > 
> > Hard to tell, since nobody seems to have such a display to test it on.
> 
> We can try the Xmono server I suppose.
> 
> There is a b&w tileset - does anyone manage to actually play with it?
> (I've cc:ed Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx because we exchanged some e-mail about it.)

I personally use two 256 colour displays with the Xsun server. Mono works 
correctly with this setup with the CVS version of Freeciv, though I
understand there has been some trouble for others (any success there?).
Before I sent the tileset to Freeciv I tested it on a real B&W Xterm
manufactured by NCD. There used to be hundreds of these things on campus,
but I don't know how many remain. I may also have been using the Xaw
client at the time, I can't recall. The game was quite playable on the
B&W display.

So in summary, at one point the client was entirely usable on a 1bbp
display. I don't know the current status, I think trying the mono-VGA
server would be the easiest solution as you mentioned.

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