D15071: Don't draw frames and shadows around images with transparency

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  @markg I'm in favor of keeping the conditional logic for the frames. If we think of this from an aesthetic point of view, we should draw frames and shadows around images that actually look better as a result. Those would be square and rectangular images with no transparency, which are pretty common for typical users. Images with transparency don't look good with the frames and shadows, so this patch turns them off. I don't think the inconsistency will bother people. On the contrary, the unnecessary *consistency* is what's bothering some people! :)
  
  I suspect you're right that originally, this feature was an attempt to mimic macOS Finder. Finder IMHO does a much worse job than we currently do or that we would do with this patch: it currently puts a frame around every image file unconditionally. It makes no attempt to detect icon files that look better with no frame, and it suffers from the "double frame" issue for window screenshots that include a shadow. I think if we land this patch and D15069 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15069>, our file dialog and Dolphin will have a better behavior. :)

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