From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is `image-compute-scaling-factor' for?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:46:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnx7ntxe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO=W_ZpH29A0iqU1UKBdft6jvmOnHp73iEv4nP3oThBmj0mQuA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Evgeny Zajcev on Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:52:21 +0300)
> From: Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:52:21 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Doesn't the doc string of create-image (which does the scaling) answer your question?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand it, why 10 pixels? In my case `auto' creates very large images (i.e.
> (frame-char-width) ==> 30), so scaling factor is 3. This creates very large images by default.
>
> I know I can set `image-scaling-factor` to whatever I need. However I want to understand the default
> behaviour decision, why 10 pixels is considered as "typical character" width?
>
> I think, by default `create-image' should create images that look good when inserted into buffer, that is *not*
> what I get by default.
See bug#22172. And if that doesn't explain it, I hope Lars (who wrote
that code) could elaborate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-24 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-24 9:30 What is `image-compute-scaling-factor' for? Evgeny Zajcev
2020-12-24 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-24 10:52 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2020-12-24 11:07 ` tomas
2020-12-24 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-24 17:12 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2020-12-25 5:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 6:10 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2020-12-25 6:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 6:36 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2020-12-25 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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