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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:33:18 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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>>From #plan9 some years ago:

<mhat> the only places for icons is in a church, a burning church at that

On 8/20/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > On 8/20/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> > > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of
> > > keeping a faces db?
> >
> > Why would he? He argued for keeping icons in sync with files -- that's
> > because files change and move. Once you link an address with a face,
> > there are few reasons why that linkage would ever change.
>
> plan 9 doesn't have icons.
>
> - erik
>