Re: Small GUI suggestion

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

On 1/2/06, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 02:08 -0500, Jay Camp wrote:
> > In the Preferences, I think it'd be good to rename "Image Interpolation"
> > to "Zooming" and rename the checkbox from "Interpolate on zoom" to
> > "Smooth image" or some such.  Write now it tells the "how" (the specific
> > algorithm used) instead of what is being accomplished.
> >
> > So, in ASCII art:
> >
> > *Zooming*
> >   | | Smooth image
>
> I'd prefer the option to not exist, and Eye Of Gnome to do the same as
> Evince, i.e. do a linear interpolation first and then incrementally do a
> better smoothing.

Just yesterday I was thankful for this option when I was checking out
some image at the pixel level (doing some themeing), so it does have a
purpose (if not the quite in everyday use category). Also, if you zoom
close enough, the interpolation (or smoothing in general) just blurs
and distorts the pixels without purpose so some maximum zoom level for
smoothing would be smart anyway.

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