Windows and 256 color displays

[Thorsten Behrens]

Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> On 9.9.2023 3.35, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> > If not, we could remove a huge chunk of dithering code in
> > ImplInitSalGDI() and vastly simplify multiplatform support.
>
> Win 7 popularity relative to other Win versions is crashing finally, being
> 3.5% now, which *is* roughly the same that Win XP was in early 2018 when
> LibreOffice removed support for it and Vista.
> 
Sounds like a good plan then. Also since 24.2 will be considered a
very visible major upgrade.

But note that there's a chunk of dither & bitmap code to retain for
paletted images, that we still want to load & save.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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