* Face: or X-Face:
@ 2006-05-01 5:26 Aaron Hsu
2006-05-01 5:42 ` Hadron Quark
2006-05-01 9:19 ` Reiner Steib
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Aaron Hsu @ 2006-05-01 5:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
The recent thread on X-Faces made me think. I realize that I am seeing
the color Face: headers, but nothing more than that. I think there is
something wrong with my viewer. However, when I used to have X-Face
support working, I always thought that it was just in Black and White.
This begs the question, what is the 'better' format to use? Face: or X-Face:?
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* Re: Face: or X-Face:
2006-05-01 5:26 Face: or X-Face: Aaron Hsu
@ 2006-05-01 5:42 ` Hadron Quark
2006-05-01 14:55 ` David Z Maze
2006-05-01 9:19 ` Reiner Steib
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Hadron Quark @ 2006-05-01 5:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
you can see both in gnus : ensure you have compface package installed.
as for the rest : I guess many would say x-face since its B&W and less
bandwidth : although, frankly, times and bandwidths have changed - it
depends if you want to appease those with very, very bandwidth. Even an
x-face uses bytes - but can be very small (relatively) too.
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* Re: Face: or X-Face:
2006-05-01 5:26 Face: or X-Face: Aaron Hsu
2006-05-01 5:42 ` Hadron Quark
@ 2006-05-01 9:19 ` Reiner Steib
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-05-01 9:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Mon, May 01 2006, Aaron Hsu wrote:
> The recent thread on X-Faces made me think. I realize that I am seeing
> the color Face: headers, but nothing more than that. I think there is
> something wrong with my viewer.
The current manual (Gnus 5.10.8) says:
,----[ (info "(gnus)X-Face") ]
| Viewing an `X-Face' header either requires an Emacs that has
| `compface' support (which most XEmacs versions has), or that you have
| suitable conversion or display programs installed. If your Emacs has
| image support the default action is to display the face before the
| `From' header. If there's no native `X-Face' support, Gnus will try to
| convert the `X-Face' header using external programs from the `pbmplus'
| package and friends. For XEmacs it's faster if XEmacs has been
| compiled with `X-Face' support. The default action under Emacs without
| image support is to fork off the `display' program.
|
| On a GNU/Linux system, the `display' program is from the ImageMagick
| package. For external conversion programs look for packages with names
| like `netpbm', `libgr-progs' and `compface'.
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* Re: Face: or X-Face:
2006-05-01 5:42 ` Hadron Quark
@ 2006-05-01 14:55 ` David Z Maze
2006-05-01 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: David Z Maze @ 2006-05-01 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
> as for the rest : I guess many would say x-face since its B&W and less
> bandwidth : although, frankly, times and bandwidths have changed - it
> depends if you want to appease those with very, very bandwidth. Even an
> x-face uses bytes - but can be very small (relatively) too.
I think in an era where most people are generating MIME mails with
duplicate text/plain and text/html parts and the HTML is pretty
groady, spending 2K for a picture in an otherwise compact plain-text
message isn't being that wasteful. :-)
As far as Face vs. X-Face goes, to my knowledge only Gnus uses Face,
but its format is fairly obvious and I could imagine hacking it into
my favorite other open-source mail reader [1]. X-Face is a stranger
but more compact format, but there's at least one other mailer that
uses it (EXMH, IIRC).
--dzm
[1] ...but that's mutt (sometimes starting Emacs, with spam-split.el
turned on using nnml backed by AFS, is just too slow). Maybe
aalib deals with PNG files...
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* Re: Face: or X-Face:
2006-05-01 14:55 ` David Z Maze
@ 2006-05-01 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2006-05-01 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:
> As far as Face vs. X-Face goes, to my knowledge only Gnus uses Face,
> but its format is fairly obvious and I could imagine hacking it into
> my favorite other open-source mail reader [1].
Support for the Face header seems to be spreading. There's an
extension for Thunderbird, kmail seems to be getting support, and
Balsa has support for it.
Microsoft Outlook next. :-)
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larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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