Hmm maybe a picture will help explain. This image is 34x34px. Marlin scales it up to 48x48px and it becomes blurry and pixelated. Now, imagine that scaled up to 256x256px. It would be awful. We should never force an image to display larger than it actually is.
** Attachment added: "Scaling Comparison" https://bugs.launchpad.net/marlin/+bug/779349/+attachment/2152376/+files/Screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of elementary desktop team, which is the registrant for Marlin. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779349 Title: don't scale up image previews Status in Marlin: Triaged Bug description: Marlin shouldn't scale up images for image previews. This causes images to appear pixelated. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementaryart Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementaryart More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
