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#74725
31.0.50; image-scaling-factor is ignored by create-image
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Reported by: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 12:15:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 31.0.50
Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 17:27:13 +0100
> From: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>
>
> On 2024-12-07 16:49, Alan Third wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 04:49:41PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 13:13:58 +0100
> >>> From: David Ponce via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> >>>
> >>> While working with images, I found what seems an issue to me with
> >>> `create-image' which unconditionally set the :scale image property to
> >>> 'default' when not specified, ignoring the value of the option
> >>> `image-scaling-factor'.
> >>>
> >>> Here is an illustration:
> >>>
> >>> (let ((image-scaling-factor 1.0))
> >>> (image-size
> >>> (find-image '((:file "icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg")))
> >>> t))
> >>> => (63 . 63)
> >>>
> >>> (let ((image-scaling-factor 2.0))
> >>> (image-size
> >>> (find-image '((:file "icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg")))
> >>> t))
> >>> => (63 . 63)
> >>>
> >>> (image-size
> >>> (find-image '((:file "icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg" :scale 1)))
> >>> t)
> >>> => (48 . 48)
> >>>
> >>> (image-size
> >>> (find-image '((:file "icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg" :scale 2)))
> >>> t)
> >>> => (96 . 96)
> >>>
> >>> You can replace `image-size' with `insert-image' and observe the same.
> >>>
> >>> Here is a simple patch which fix the issue for me:
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/lisp/image.el b/lisp/image.el
> >>> index ce97eeb3ca1..2c1e865c336 100644
> >>> --- a/lisp/image.el
> >>> +++ b/lisp/image.el
> >>> @@ -536,7 +536,9 @@ create-image
> >>> file-or-data)
> >>> (and (not (plist-get props :scale))
> >>> ;; Add default scaling.
> >>> - (list :scale 'default))
> >>> + (list :scale (if (numberp image-scaling-factor)
> >>> + image-scaling-factor
> >>> + 'default)))
> >>> props)))
> >>> ;; Add default smoothing.
> >>> (unless (plist-member props :transform-smoothing)
> >>
> >> AFAIU, this is supposed to be taken care of in image.c.
> >>
> >> Alan, any ideas why this doesn't seem to work?
> >
> > It's because the image spec doesn't change so the image is pulled from
> > the cache each time.
> >
> > Flushing the image between calls to image-size fixes it:
> >
> > (image-flush (find-image '((:file "icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg"))))
> >
> > I'm not sure what the solution is here. My feeling is that
> > image-scaling-factor isn't intended as something you set for each
> > image as you load it, it's a set-and-forget setting, so perhaps we
> > just need to document that in order for it to take effect the image
> > cache needs to be flushed.
> >
> > Alternatively we make the image cache aware of it.
> >
> > Perhaps we can flush the cache automatically when it changes? That
> > might give unexpected results too.
>
> This is exactly what I also observe.
> It seems due to this change:
>
> author Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> 2024-06-03 16:34:51 +0800
> committer Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> 2024-06-03 16:36:29 +0800
> commit 56376585134d627f96c71b7b063ec51548d3ad3f (patch)
>
> Which replaced
>
> - (list :scale
> - (image-compute-scaling-factor
> - image-scaling-factor)))
>
> By this
>
> + (list :scale 'default))
>
> In create-image.
>
> With the side effect that the image spec don't change when the scaling
> factor changes, so the same cached image in always used.
Po Lu, what were the reasons for that particular part of the commit?
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