[haiku-development] Re: Working on Haiku's Mail app

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:12:23 +0100 CET

> -- François Revol, on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:12:05 +0100 CET:
> > > OTOH, not having the status under the icon would allow for
> > > avatars
> > > with
> > > the height of the 3 header lines, approx. 48x48 instead of 32x32.
> > > Should anyone like the avatar idea...
> >
> > Btw there is already an almost-standard format for avatars in mail,
> > compface (aka xface).
> > So no need to invent another one :)
>
> Yeah, but that's a 1-bit black and white bitmap coded into the header
> of every sent mail. Not what I had in mind... My idea would be any

I thought there were extentions...
maybe http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html ?

> image format as META:avatar for People files that can be used by any
> app. The Mail app could do the filtered resizing so that the bigest
> dimension fits the available space (32 or 48px?).

it probably wouldn't fit the small_data section but well...

François.

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