[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8048: Even larger icon support in Tracker
- From: "jscipione" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:10:37 -0000
#8048: Even larger icon support in Tracker
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Reporter: jscipione | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jscipione):
Replying to [comment:3 Disreali]:
> I love having big icons, especially on big wide-screen monitors.
me too :)
> I don't want to discourage anyone who works on Haiku, but the enlarged
BeOS icons look weird. Is it really worthwhile to enlarge and scale old
BeOS icons it they don't look good?
Yes, the enlarged BeOS icons look weird -- of course they do, they are
32x32 bitmaps scaled up to 128x128. There is no magical scaling algorithm
(that I have the code for anyway) that will turn 32x32 bitmaps into
128x128 bitmaps without sacrificing quality. That is one of the reasons
why stippi developed HVIF in the first place! I have hope that someday we
can use the techniques in the "Depixelizing Pixel Art" paper from
Microsoft Research to scale BeOS icons up better, but that is all I have
right now, hope, no code.
> Would it be possible to break up the patch into 2 parts, one for the
Haiku icons and one for the BeOS scaled icons?
I can break the patch up into 2 parts, but let me first say that scaling
up the BeOS icons using bilinear scaling is going to look /even worse/
then it does using scale3x/scale4x. I know this because I compared the 2
closely when I implemented scale2x for 64x64 icons. You can see the
different between scale2x and bilinear scaling for 64x64 BeOS icons by
looking at the images attached to #7130.
> I agree with Axel's concern regarding the IconView menu. How do other
OS's/DE's handle that?
Mac OS X uses a slider to adjust Finder icon sizes. Windows 7 puts the
options in the View menu of Explorer like Haiku, but has fewer options
[http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3916-icon-size-change-windows-
explorer-window.html Windows 7 icon size]. I like the slider, it
accommodates more sizes.
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