[rox-devel] ROX-Filer: thumbnail scaling is "wrong"

[Barry K. <bk...@go...>]

Hi, I'm the lead developer of Puppy Linux. Puppy has used ROX-Filer
version 1.2.2 for the last couple of years, but I finally decided to
upgrade, to v2.5.

It has been fairly smooth sailing doing the upgrade, and we have sorted
out how to handle the image on the root window -- using the example
SOAP script that you have on one of your web pages.

The only thing that really stands out as a backward step, coming from
v1.2.2 is the scaling of thumbnails. It works perfectly in 1.2.2.
I have ROX set to large-icons, but all thumbnails also get scaled to fit
the allotted space -- 128x128 I think. That's okay for larger images,
but not for smaller ones. Puppy has a lot of 16x16 xpm images, and these
are all scaled up -- but they were never intended to display at that
size and they look crappy.
ROX 1.2.2 leaves smaller images as-is. But there doesn't seem to be any
setting in 2.5 for this, so I was wondering, is there something that I
can easily change in the source code to achieve this?

Changing the subject slightly, I read that one of the reasons ROX
pinboard has a window overlaying the root window is to get antialised
fonts. We have a patched ROX-Filer v1.2.2 with Xft support and it does 
render
antialiased fonts on the desktop, but we never figured out how to get
a transparent background.

Regards,
Barry Kauler
www.puppyos.com