@Clément Foucault (fclem) You can already work with pixel art textures by using Eevee and setting your texture interpolation to Closest. This even works in the paint modes too.

So to me it seems like we already support this fairly well out of the box. For the Workbench, it seems like a slightly too obscure option to add in the Shading popover, and this is quite a specialized.

Why not simply keep this in the Preferences? We also have options there for AA, anisotropic filtering and other things, and obscure texture interpolation options fit well with those.

Or is it because you see this option as being project-specific?

I think it's perfectly fine to say, if you want certain special material setups with special texture filtering, then set up a material to do this. That's one of the nice things about Eevee - it's part of the viewport, so you can work in it.

Or if some users *really* need this outside rendered or LookDev view, then they can set it in the Preferences. To me this sounds fine.

This is about solid mode Texture color and the texture paint overlay I think? Those can be made to use the filter setting from the Image Texture node as well.

As far as I know there's one case where the image does not come from an Image Texture node, when texture painting mode is set to Single Image. There could be an interpolation setting for that case, if needed.

@Brecht Van Lommel (brecht): Good point, we can just use the interpolation from the texture node, even in the Workbench. Seems like that would be perfect.