gnus: Picons
9.14.4 Picons
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So... You want to slow down your news reader even more! This is a good
way to do so. It’s also a great way to impress people staring over your
shoulder as you read news.
What are Picons? To quote directly from the Picons Web site:
“Picons” is short for “personal icons”. They’re small, constrained
images used to represent users and domains on the net, organized
into databases so that the appropriate image for a given e-mail
address can be found. Besides users and domains, there are picon
databases for Usenet newsgroups and weather forecasts. The picons
are in either monochrome ‘XBM’ format or color ‘XPM’ and ‘GIF’
formats.
For instructions on obtaining and installing the picons databases,
point your Web browser at
<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html>.
If you are using Debian GNU/Linux, saying ‘apt-get install picons.*’
will install the picons where Gnus can find them.
To enable displaying picons, simply make sure that
‘gnus-picon-databases’ points to the directory containing the Picons
databases.
The variable ‘gnus-picon-style’ controls how picons are displayed.
If ‘inline’, the textual representation is replaced. If ‘right’, picons
are added right to the textual representation.
The value of the variable ‘gnus-picon-properties’ is a list of
properties applied to picons.
The following variables offer control over where things are located.
‘gnus-picon-databases’
The location of the picons database. This is a list of directories
containing the ‘news’, ‘domains’, ‘users’ (and so on)
subdirectories. Defaults to ‘("/usr/lib/picon"
"/usr/local/faces")’.
‘gnus-picon-news-directories’
List of subdirectories to search in ‘gnus-picon-databases’ for
newsgroups faces. ‘("news")’ is the default.
‘gnus-picon-user-directories’
List of subdirectories to search in ‘gnus-picon-databases’ for user
faces. ‘("users" "usenix" "local" "misc")’ is the default.
‘gnus-picon-domain-directories’
List of subdirectories to search in ‘gnus-picon-databases’ for
domain name faces. Defaults to ‘("domains")’. Some people may
want to add ‘"unknown"’ to this list.
‘gnus-picon-file-types’
Ordered list of suffixes on picon file names to try. Defaults to
‘("xpm" "gif" "xbm")’ minus those not built-in your Emacs.
‘gnus-picon-inhibit-top-level-domains’
If non-‘nil’ (which is the default), don’t display picons for
things like ‘.net’ and ‘.de’, which aren’t usually very
interesting.
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