[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #44441: Remove the settings for "medium" and "large" image sizes from Settings => Media

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#44441: Remove the settings for "medium" and "large" image sizes from Settings =>
Media
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 Reporter:  azaozz        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  Media         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:9 joyously]:
 > Nothing new. This has ever been the situation.

 Hm, so we should never try to improve that "situation"? :)

 > It's not necessarily "wrong" if it gives the user what he wanted.

 Well, it is quite outdated approach and not "best practice". The users may
 want to use tables for layout, and they certainly can if they wanted. But
 it... sucks and makes their sites look really bad :)

 > I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought here. It's almost as if
 you are thinking that the Media size options are only used for `srcset`
 and therefore we should get rid of them.

 Yes, for the last couple of years the image sub-sizes created after
 uploading an image are primarily used to populate the `srcset` attribute
 of the `<img>` on the front-end. Using a particular size in the editor
 does not limit the browser to that size like it was with the old `src`
 attribute.

 > I'm saying that they could be used for other things that you don't know
 about

 Right. That's what I was asking above. Could you describe an user case
 where a particular, hard-coded image size (that is different from the
 WordPress default) is needed? That user case should allow for the user to
 change that image size at will, randomly, because this is how these
 settings work at the moment.

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