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i'm using Aleni's Gnome Icon shell32 replacement on an old IBM Thinkpad which can only display 24bit and 16bit color depth. when i leave it on 16bit color (for better system performance) the icons stay at a really really low resolution. it looks like maybe only 8 or 16 colors. can someone help me out?

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im pretty sure that u cannot change the color depth while its like that....just the way windows works i guess. i wouldnt know tho, someone else may have a better answer.

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What model is your thinkpad? If it's anything before the 1600x1200 UXGA screens which are 18bit, you have a max of a 12bit screen. No LCD can display over 18bit colors as of yet... Not even my SGI 1600SW 1600x1024 or my Dell Inspiron 8200 UltraSharp UXGA or my IBM ThinkPad A31P FlexView UXGA which both use the same IBM/Toshiba UltraSharp UXGA screen.

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well it's fine when i use the original shell32.dll. all the icons are still alright, just jagged. but now when i use aleni's gnome icons, even the icons in my quicklaunch toolbar become all crappy. the ie 3.0 icon and the original msn msnger icon. it just looks so ugly.

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Originally posted by SOOPAH256

well it's fine when i use the original shell32.dll. all the icons are still alright, just jagged. but now when i use aleni's gnome icons, even the icons in my quicklaunch toolbar become all crappy. the ie 3.0 icon and the original msn msnger icon. it just looks so ugly.

Read what I wrote above.... Depending on the model of ThinkPad you have and what video card it uses and the amount of memory. The 1280x1024 screens will display 16bit color from the card but 12bit on the display. At 1024x768, it will still be the same amount of colors. At 800x600, that's when your colors will look their best. Your icons have more colors than what your video card/LCD can handle. This has been discussed heavily on the thinkpads mailing lists and www.thinkpads.com forums.

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hmm, i'm not sure what you're saying. but when i use 1024*768 @ 24bit...but icons are fine. 1024*768 @ 16bit are when the icons turn bad.

even at 800*600 @ 16bit are bad. though 800*600 @ 24bit are good. so i don't think it's about available memory (from what i assume you're talking about)

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Originally posted by SOOPAH256

hmm, i'm not sure what you're saying. but when i use 1024*768 @ 24bit...but icons are fine. 1024*768 @ 16bit are when the icons turn bad.

even at 800*600 @ 16bit are bad. though 800*600 @ 24bit are good. so i don't think it's about available memory (from what i assume you're talking about)

I give up... The fact of the matter is that NO LCD can display anything above 18bit color natively... Even if you have it at 24bit or 32bit, it will still display only 18bit color which is exactly 262144 colors. Ofcourse, this is only possible on monitors that are 18 bit and all the 18 bit monitors have atleast 1400x1050 resolution and were only available for the last year or so and came in only 14" and 15". The display you're talking about on the ThinkPad is either 14" or 13.7". The 13.7" version can do 1280x1024 while the 14" version can do 1024x768. Ofcourse, both of them do not

do above 16bit color at the maximum resolution while it does allow selecting 24bit and 32bit at 800x600. You still haven't answered my first question, what model is your thinkpad and the type number on the bottom of the machine? That would help in providing an accurate answer. I'm not talking about video memory but the way LCD's and Plasma's work, it has a limit on the amount of colors it can display at once unlike CRT's.

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