I don't think it's just in my head but if you set Dolphin to Icons View Mode and zoom to something that is not a multiple of 8, like 96 pixels, the icons look fuzzier than when set to a multiple of 8, like 64 pixels. This is noticeable with a picture in the icon, like the folder-music icon of Breeze (Plasma 5.5.3). I thought they were svg so that this shouldn't be a problem.

Afaik the breeze icons are "optimized" to align to some grid (16px, 8px or even 4px?) and even an svg needs to be rastered, so you can either raster on an exact multiplicator or keeping in pixel bounds (resulting in incorrect ratios) - there's been a famous flamewar across all OS, because this is also very relevant for font rendering (and differed between Windows and OSX)

tl;dr:
it's very much possible that icons look more blurry at certain sizes than at others (but that would be a problem in the svg renderer rather than in dolphin or any client and - if the above is the cause - isn't fixable w/o dying the other death)


PS: 96 btw. /is/ a multiple of 8, 16 and 32 ... :-P
So if it's really esp. notable on that size, there must be some other reason.

Oh whoops, obviously not multiples of 8. i was in a rush to figure out pixel increments that look good and those that look fuzzy.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware that svg needs to be rasterized and thought that scaling (at correct ratios) wouldn't lead to fuzziness.