Re: Question regarding the new multiplaned x-face

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Torsten Hilbrich <gnus@myrkr.in-berlin.de> writes:

> It would be nice if the X-Face part would be the same as the old
> bitmap one and the additional planes are used to improve the picture.
> Or is the code supposed to do this and I'm doing something wrong.

Yes.  The multiplaned X-Faces aren't really useful as they are now.

Let's see...  Looking at one parts of one line with a single-plane
X-Face, it's like this:

1111000000001111

(A black bit with some white around it.)

With two planes it's:

1101000000010011
1110000000001111

(Lighter around the edges and black in the middle.)

So plane 1 doesn't remain the same with two planes representing 4
colors.  But perhaps the other planes don't have to be constructed
that way?

In any case, I think multiplaned X-Faces are a loss, and coming up
with a new standard would be better.  The Face header, which can
contain URLs or PNGs, or something.

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