Windows and 256 color displays

[Chris Sherlock]

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> On 11 Sep 2023, at 12:45 pm, Thorsten Behrens <thb at libreoffice.org> wrote:
> 
> 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

Sorry for the massive delay in responding. So when we drop support for Windows 7, it looks like we can revisit this code. Does this sound reasonable?

Chris