From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42002 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Ugly line of dashs Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:04 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177309 9097 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:15:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4283 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 23:18:11 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 23:18:11 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16QGM6-0008WJ-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA18948 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4239 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2002 23:17:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4234 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 23:17:11 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (128.101.35.200) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 23:17:11 -0000 Original-Received: from bose.cs.umn.edu (postfix@bose.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.195]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0ENHA711411; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by bose.cs.umn.edu (Postfix, from userid 818) id 85D35321A; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:17:05 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Wes Hardaker In-Reply-To: (Wes Hardaker's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:20:48 -0800") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42002 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42002 Wes Hardaker writes: >>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:34:24 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: > >>> Um, it seems kind of odd to me that picons and x-faces dictate the >>> behavior of another feature. Shouldn't it have it's own toggle? > > Lars> It does have its own toggle, but the default value depends on > Lars> whether you're displaying picons. > > I *guess* that makes sense, though it seems like a rather odd thing to > do. I understand that you're default is trying to be "if they like > graphics, then use more" [snip] Actually, that's not the reason. The reason is that with X-Faces and picons, there's suddenly a lot more whitespace in the header itself, and it gets difficult to discern the whitespace that is used to demarcate the header from the body. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash