From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42223 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Question regarding the new multiplaned x-face Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:08:50 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 1035177492 10219 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6482 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:09:36 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:09:36 -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 16S3fp-0007YQ-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:09:17 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:09:10 -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 QAA18864 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:08:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6475 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2002 22:08:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6470 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:08:58 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:08:58 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16S3j5-0005ix-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:12:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011478359 21216 195.204.10.148 (19 Jan 2002 22:12:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2002 22:12:39 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Playgroup's _Playgroup_: "Overflow" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "a\;"*J:tXcd/:q==U)=@Dnm!~H"y#|15$IVwQT4jAEMCJ0i''d_bw,?WY\n_SU0q;Lq9l( &A$II^$Z3di!pR?X^>tihx37eDEUzE%&gVCL+4Ot=iST3D(rP)%h1c\5K]I%y4zkXYAb&bH7crBEs6 Q07T\=P.[*1HcaLl`8#ouYyyg)d|%?>NTRyI, Cancel-Lock: sha1:DukOvKOd0CfYmg1qddEKwziS20k= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42223 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42223 Torsten Hilbrich 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen