Bug#425400: Reduze the default size for thumbnails

[Otavio Salvador]

Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

> Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 10:58 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit :
>> While we were making the needed package on Debian for our derivative,
>> we found that default thumnnail size makes the screen ugly and then we
>> managed to produce a patch to make it looks better.
>
> What do you mean by "ugly"? Do thumbnails get so when downsized to 64x64
> for display?
>
> If so, I'm interested to see a difference between before and after your
> patch. This could also mean there's a problem with the downsizing code.

No, there's no error on downsizing code. It looks ugly since they
looks a lot bigger then the other icons and if we apply it it looks
much nicer.

>> As you can see on the attached file it's fair trivial and would be
>> good to merge it on Debian so our Desktop users might have a better
>> look-and-feel.
>
> Your patch will make things ugly for people using a high resolution. If
> we're to change the thumbnail size, I'd be inclined to set it to 128,
> which should downsize fine to 64.

Please, explain it. I didn't get why it would look ugly for high
resolution screens?

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