Re: [Pan-users] X-Face support.

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:33:06AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
> On Wed 26 Mar 2003 00:07, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
> > Is this currently on the list of a million things that people want someone
> > else to do for them?
> >
> > I forgot that I missed X-Faces and have suddenly realized that I
> > want them back in my newsreader.  :)
> 
> It has come up b4.  I believe the consensus was that it's an interesting 
> feature, but nothing urgent, thus, it's "bluesky", unless someone with coding 
> skills finds that it really IS urgent, to them.  I'd suggest checking the 
> archives to be sure, tho, if interested, as that's from potentially faulty 
> memory, since I have about the same opinion of it -- nice, but there are a 
> lot of more useful things that would be nicer, including attachment posting 
> support, and unified multi-server support (which is postponed until after the 
> db format changes, to occur sometime in the future, I believe b4 1.0).

Actually, I promoted this to 0.14.1 after finding http://faces.sourceforge.net/,
which has a lot of code for X-Face support in gdk that can be dropped into Pan. 
:)
If 0.14.1 turns into a bugfix release, X-Face will be bumped to a later 0.14.x.

cheers,
Charles