Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.3-1 fails on startup with W2K5.00.2195 Service

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:19:53 -0700
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:59:41PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> Gdk Error **: Palletized display (256-colour) mode not supported on Windows.  Aborting....

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q4.19

> Is there a reason why the program needs 16 bit color?

Because the version of GTK+ with which it's built requires it, and GTK+
is the toolkit we're currently using on Windows as well as on UNIX.

The latest GTK+ apparently supports 256 colors - but that's a GTK+
2.x/GLib 2.x version, so there would be some unknown amount of work
needed to make it work with 2.x.  It will not necessarily be ported
soon.

People have thought about using the native Windows widgets, but that's
not necessarily going to happen soon, either.