resizing in new panel

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>I encounter the following issues with the new panel (r20099)
>>>>1) a launcher with an icon of 64x64 does not scale up as much as one 
>>>>with 48x48, for a while they grow together but after that only the 48 
>>>>one  stretches
>>>
>>>Strange. I just call xfce_themed_icon_load(). This might be gtk icon 
>>>theme behavior.
> 
> IIRC this is one of the problems I had with GtkIconTheme.  I think
> there's a certain threshold after which GtkIconTheme won't scale icons
> up (the rationale being that it looks ugly).  If that's still the case,
> I can add a little code to xfce_themed_icon_load() to check the icon
> size and rescale if needed, but I'm not sure that's the best idea, both
> for lack of ugliness, and speed.  Thoughts?

IMHO icons should never be scaled up implicitly. If the user wants
larger icons, he/she can either use an SVG theme/icon or scale up the
bitmap icon manually.

> 	-brian

Benedikt