GNU bug report logs - #51596
image-transform-resize has inconsistent semantics wrt scaling up/down

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Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 04:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 51596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51596: image-transform-resize has inconsistent semantics wrt scaling up/down
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:50:54 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> 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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