Java: portable bugs. I forgot about 10bit. I should have said indexed-mode or non-true-color. I meant anything below RGB888. Linear for processing would be ni

Java: portable bugs. I forgot about 10bit. I should have said indexed-mode or non-true-color. I meant anything below RGB888. Linear for processing would be nice where that conversion can be done efficiently, and where the display driver can make a passable representation. The system I worked on only had black, light grey, dark grey, and white. What was nice about X was that the driver could express its limitations to clients, so that the client could make smart rendering decisions and handle dithering vs not dithering appropriately, rather than doing it at the display driver layer.