Re: ...and more picons

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> > there's now a `gnus-picons-get-maximum-picons' variable that
> > defaults to t
> 
> Can this take time?  With a slow machine, my first priority can be is to
> get rid of anything time-consuming.  (Including scoring and even
> threading, sometimes.)  Other times, I want anything which makes things
> look or work better.

Picons is off by default -- you have to add some functions to
`gnus-article-display-hook' to see them.

> The number of variables to keep track of, is growing again...  I'd like
> to be able to configure all this, without having to keep track of all
> the variables.  How about a `gnus-nice-stuff' variable into which you
> put a list of the nice features we want?  Or gnus-nice-visual-stuff,
> gnus-nice-treading-stuff and so on.  Hm.  We tried that before without
> much success.  Maybe an M-x gnus-configure is better.  Asks about
> general things, like "do you want gnus to be nice, or fast?"

Those meta-variables again.  :-)  

The manual for the new Custom thing is very nice.  To bad the new
custom.el hasn't been written yet.  Lots of neat things that can be
done within that framework...

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen