Subject: bug#51596: image-transform-resize has inconsistent semantics wrt scaling up/down

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:50:54 +0100

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> "Fit height" and "fit width" both scales an image up or down, but "fit
> height and width" only scales an image down.  Is that intentional?

Yes, I think so?  The point of the latter is that too-big images are
pretty useless -- you want to scale them down so that you can actually
see them.  But it doesn't therefore follow that you want to scale tiny
icons up to fill the screen.

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