Re: Support "Importance:" header

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Pavel [iso-8859-2] Janík wrote:
> > 
> >>    > The following adds support for those pesky
> >>    > Outlookish-but-really-X.400 Importance: headers (and fixes
> >>    > various bugs found in the process of writing it). If there are
> >>    > artists out there that can make the icons less ugly that would
> >>    > be a good thing. I stole the C-c C-p binding in the *Message*
> >>    > buffer, hopefully noone uses it?
> >> 
> >> What about inventing mechanism for marking such messages in a summary
> >> buffer?
> > 
> > Scoring?
> 
> Little flag icons in the summary buffer. :)

Attaching certain icons to different scores could be useful. You could
reuse the smileys, happy smileys for positive scores and angry smileys for
negative scores. :-)   Or a Gnus icon for Gnus related posts, or a Emacs 
icon for Emacs related posts, much like KDE Konqueror's icons for various 
URLs.

> I don't know what those Emacs 20 users would want; maybe a glyph with
> text substituted like the read, etc, marks.

The "+" and "-" in the summary buffer which is present now is probably
enough.

It would be non-obtrusive, the icon wouldn't appear unless you score 
articles to a certain level.  Unlike the smileys icons, which probably 
everyone disables. (Or maybe it is just me.)