Re: X-Face support in XEmacs

[Pekka Marjola <marjola@bilbo.ntc.nokia.com>]

"Jens" == Jens Lautenbacher <jtl@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

>>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
SLB> Support for X-Face is already built into the Tools for MIME
SLB> package, so effectively, it's already supported.  Gnus need
SLB> do nothing more.

Jens> Unfortunately I never got this one to work. But maybe I don't
Jens> understand how it is supposed to work: Should it display X-faces
Jens> automatically inside the buffer as the proposed code of the original
Jens> poster does? Or does it spawn a xv? How does it react if the message
Jens> has no mime header?

There is no specific support in Gnus for showing X-Face in XEmacs
currently... Using xv is kinda silly. It also requires netpbm package.

Anyway, I noticed that x-face displaying hook must be added after
other hooks are there (otherwise highlighting stuff etc. are never
added):

(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook
		       'gnus-article-display-x-face t)))


Jens> I think something that simple as the proposed piece of code should be
Jens> added to gnus, at least until tm is oficially added to (X)Emacs.

Well, tm uses external processes to show X-Face, too. (It shows X-Face
in article buffer, though.) X-Face support is in precompiled XEmacs
binaries, so most XEmacs users should be able to use internal method.

IMNSHO X-Face support should in both Gnus and tm, as it is now. It's
not MIME thing, but for completeness (everyone does not use Gnus :( ),
tm should have it, too. Until tm is used almost always/automatically
with Gnus, if ever, it shouldn't be removed from Gnus.

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