Re: Support 24-bit terminals

[elronnd]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I'm not the only one to notice that it counts all of the
> front-ends to VTE as if they were independent implementations,
> as well as tossing in some _different_ programs as if they
> were commonly used.  Call it what you like, I'm not going to
> have any further discussion on that topic.

Ignore all the vte-based programs.  The most commonly used terminals, 
afaict, are xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal (vte), urxvt, and iterm2.  ALL 
OF WHICH SUPPORT 24-bit colour.  The only terminals from that list which 
/don't/ support 24-bit colour that I've even HEARD OF are terminology and 
putty.  And there are superior alternatives for both of those, even beyond 
the fact that they have negligeble market share.  And if you do want to 
support them, you can simply not use 24-bit colour.