[dolphin] [Bug 414157] Make Dolphin optionally not scale up small images and icons

[Rizal Muttaqin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414157

--- Comment #2 from Rizal Muttaqin <riz_17_oke at yahoo.co.id> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> IIRC we used to do this, but we got complaints about it--including by other
> icon designers who valued the ability to see the scaled up version in their
> file manager.


Thanks for your response, Nate. Really appreciate that.

> For SVG icons, I don't really see the problem, since they're designed to
> look good when scaled up. However I can understand the problem for small
> raster images, which get scaled up and become blurry, which I'll admit does
> not look amazing.
As a vector image, yes SVG has no technical problem here. But still, being
scaled up to a particular dimension for _every_ file is not acceptable for me.
It's still a deception.


> Since people seem to have different preferences regarding this, maybe we
> should just give in and add an option to enable/disable scaling up small
> images and icons. Gwenview has such an option, BTW.

To look further, we can see this behavior in other file manager. I'm an GNOME
veteran user and from my desktop experience, IMHO majority of GNOME based DE's
file managers out there (Nautilus, PCManFM, Nemo, Pantheon files, Marlin,
Thunar, etc) have the same behavior: they rendered icon as its actual canvas
size. Try not to be "argumentum ad populum", but this choice far far helping me
to get things done. And oh, this issue is a huge factor for me to keep away
from using KDE. Everytime I try a KDE distro, I end up reinstall my machine
with GNOME distro after losing hope since this situation has not change yet
over the years.

I have tried Gwenview to display 24px*24px icon, but unfortunately it show a
huge distance from one icon to another and there's no way to shrink this which
lead me a big struggle to scroll down.

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