From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:48:23 +0000 From: jsnx Message-ID: <1187631109.443777.242390@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <1187377796.983193.153800@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Subject: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory Topicbox-Message-UUID: aeaa5134-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Aug 20, 2:01 am, n...@lsub.org (Francisco J Ballesteros) wrote: > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of > keeping a faces db? That doesn't have anything to do with my point about icons for window managers, since mail messages are not files, generally speaking. They may be stored as files, in which case the mail tool that stores them may also include the face as a file attribute -- probably just a uuid into the faces db, not the whole image.