[Gimp-docs] Glossary - visual class (again)

[Sally C. Barry]

Hello Sven and All -

>> I agree that this information isn't terribly useful to the user and that
>> the details of how the visual classes differ are far too esoteric.

>In particular since GTK+ (or rather GDK) pretty much hides those
>differences. It is extremely difficult to tell the difference between a
>16bit and a 24bit display if the rendering goes through GDK.

... which basically means (if I understand you correctly) that the entire
GIMP rendering pipeline and I/O to and from files, etc. is done with the
advertized 24-bit color depth, but the actual display may actually use
only 16-bit color, without the user knowing about it (other than by
looking at the image).  Interesting.

Thanks again!

Sally