Subject: bug#4033: 23.1; list-colors-display is misleading

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:22:06 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:55:44 -0700
> 
> Emacs supports 16 bits per component internally, doesn't that mean that it
> supports up to #RRRRGGGGBBBB?

It supports that, but it cannot actually display that if the display
driver has only 8 bits per component.  I.e., the extra bits get lost
when the color is actually displayed.