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24.4.50; Emacs cannot display some gif images correctly under dark background

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Tu, Do" <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17483: 24.4.50; Emacs cannot display some gif images correctly under dark background
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:42:50 +0300

> From: "Tu, Do" <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:59:38 +0700
> 
> - emacs -q
> - Choose any color theme with dark background: (load-theme 'tango-dark t)
> - Download or open image at this url: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/intro_tree.gif
> 
> Result: The image is deformed. Background becomes very dark, the nodes become gray. This is not expected.
                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is a well-known optical illusion: the same gray shade looks more
bright on a darker background.  If you use some tool that shows color
pixels at certain screen location, you will see that the pixels are
exactly identical to what you get on the default (light) background.

There's no bug here.

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