Tell me, is it possible to determine 'setSmooth(true)' as default value for any new loaded texture (like in 1.6)?
If it were a good idea, Laurent wouldn't have changed it for SFML 2.
In my opinion, the default behavior should be to render images 1:1, without special filters. With the old semantics, there have been loads of forum threads because images were drawn in a distorted way.