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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] seemail/faces
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Date: Sat,  1 Dec 2001 06:06:00 +0100
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> Why not, pray? Its use implies you've already got X11 and all the
> gunk that goes with it. Xfaces, behemoth though it might be, just
> sits in the corner and renders pixels. Big deal. Turn off all the
> rubbish about audio, animation, shaped images and about half a
> million image formats, and just display what's in your mailbox.
> It's not as if you need to *interact* with it.

These are exactly the reasons I do not want it.

It's the emacs school of thought.

I've suffered enough, putting up faces.

faces/seemail is a much smaller, cooler piece of code.

It also lets me test libXg, which could be productive
for people who want to run plan 9 stuff on X11.

This is user mode, not linux kernel, build it all
in and then compress it.

Simple is good.  Simple works.

    Turkish: Did you understand one word of what he just said?