From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4436 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Gross Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: picons support (was Re: New features + feature freeze?) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:55:44 -0600 Sender: bgross@gargoyle.ncsa.uiuc.edu Message-ID: <199512150353.EAA03174@ifi.uio.no> References: <199512141752.AA045193543@chroma.ece.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: Ben Gross NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145181 29556 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wes Hardaker Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA31385 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:33:17 -0800 Original-Received: from gargoyle.ncsa.uiuc.edu (gargoyle.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.221.170]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:53:49 +0100 Original-Received: by gargoyle.ncsa.uiuc.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA063819744; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:55:44 -0600 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Uri: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/bgross In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Dec 1995 09:52:21 CST." <199512141752.AA045193543@chroma.ece.ucdavis.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4436 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4436 Wes Hardaker wrote: > >William Perry writes: > >|> Images do not work _at all_ under GNU Emacs, so this is futile to try and >|> port. Should definitely be in the XEmacs section of code though. Are you >|> relying on XFace support being compiled in, or can you use >|> facetoicon|icontoxbm filters as well like highlight-headers? > >Currently I haven't added the x-face header support yet... Its on my >todo list though (should be simple enough). Anyway, it currently uses >the picons database of stuff (look at >http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html). I have been using the faces from the X-face header for a while now in EXMH. I recently installed some of the picons databases. The visual recognition of an individual is much nicer than looking at the from header. >|> Would be nice if this wasn't just relegated to XFace as well. If I put >|> an X-GIF or something in there, would be cool to have it show up. XEmacs >|> 19.14 will have built in GIF, JPEG, and PNG support as well, so it wouldn't >|> even be slow for most users. :) > >The picons database has support for three types: xpm, gif, xbm. >Currently, I'm only using xpm and xbm since I think there are no gif >files in the database that don't have a matching xpm file. I would recommend also supporting gif as I believe there are a number of icons that do not have a matching xpm file. I know at least locally that this is the case, and I think it may also be true in the domain database in some instances. Great work on supporting picons though, I hope more applications begin to use it in the future as we move towards more visual and personable interfaces. :) Thanks, Ben Gross -- "Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?" ---Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash" Ben Gross Email: bgross@uiuc.edu URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/bgross