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QML Image element has some smoothing when scaling an image by default but it's not enough and the picture still looks a bit pixelated. This patch fixes that.
Also while I was at it, I added keeping the aspect ratio, because no one likes their avatars stretched.
BUG: 369327
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Because smooth property is enabled by default and it's apparently not enough for a good looking image.
Unless I'm missing something, nothing else is available that controls smoothing of an Image element.
Thanks for the pointer. Upon further investigation it looks like setting
sourceSize.width: width sourceSize.height: height
instead of mipmap works well for more or less square images. However, for images that are significantly wider than they are taller (or vice versa) quality is degrading.
AFAICT, Image in qml loads the image in a mode equivalent to Image.PreserveAspectCrop (at least in this case) after which Image's scaling kicks in. So images that are really wide or really tall end up being loaded at a resolution that is way off and then scaled.
I guess it's not that big of a price to pay so I'll replace mipmap with sourceSize.