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Deprecate/remove `is-color-display?`

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Dificultad
4/5
Tiempo estimado
3-5 días
Aptitud para principiantes
35/100
Tipo de issue
Refactorización
Claridad
Bastante claro
Estado de actividad
Estancado
Área
desktop

Línea de trabajo

Inspecciona las implementaciones de is-color-display? en los backends gtk3, cocoa y win32, junto con las referencias de la API GUI pública. Decide el alcance de la deprecación o eliminación y, a continuación, verifica que los tres backends y la API expuesta reflejen esa decisión de forma coherente.

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Descripción

The function is-color-display? is useless, in its current form, and I propose that it be deprecated and/or removed.

  • It has separate implementations in all 3 backends (gtk3, cocoa, win32) and all of them simply hardcode a constant: (define (is-color-display?) #t)
  • Modern GUI toolkits don't seem to have a corresponding function for it to easily wrap (perhaps because nearly every display in use today has color), so there's no obvious and simple path to fixing it -- nor does there seem to be any great demand for this functionality
  • Unlike most other per-monitor attributes which have racket/gui accessors, this one doesn't take a #:monitor argument (so you can't answer questions like: "Am I drawing on a monochrome monitor right now?")
  • There's no corresponding event that I can find, so when monitors or settings change, your program won't know (unless you poll, which brings its own set of problems)
  • No Racket program that I've found uses this function, and nobody has ever mentioned that it doesn't do what it claims to do

Even if all the issues here were fixed, it's not clear what its intended use is. Perhaps a program could use this as a hint to distinguish visuals by shape rather than simply color, but given the prevalence of colorblindness, they should always do that, anyway.

The one place where I can imagine such a feature being useful is for printing, as black-and-white printers are still fairly common, but that obviously goes through printer-dc% and dc<%>, not the default monitor, and those interfaces have no such feature, so it can't be used for that.

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