Re: [Evolution-hackers] Call for Release Notes

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 09:13 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 23:42 -0600, Sankar P wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:24 +0000, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:03 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:00 +0000, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > > > >  * FACE header and Contact image in preview pane
> > > > > 
> > > > > Evolution has support to attach FACE header while sending e-mails and
> > > > > extract the header while receiving and show it in the preview pane.
> > > > > http://bp3.blogger.com/_G_VBnbGWMzs/Rpy_2WCctrI/AAAAAAAABGo/qWewaum0Z-A/s1600-h/ZFace.jpg
> > > > 
> > > > How can I tell evolution to use a particular image when I send emails? I
> > > > don't see this in the preferences.
> > > Currently you can do it from Insert->Face in the composer window. It was
> > > supposed to have a preferences as part of plugin configuration. But I
> > > dont think it made it to svn.
> > > 
> > > Sankar, am I right?
> > 
> > Yes. You are.
> > 
> > You need to use Inset->Face in the composer window. 
> > 
> > A few more things are still pending for this plugin. User should be able
> > to set a photo from plugin-configure. The plugin should also support
> > resizing the photo by itself. I did some of these changes but missed the
> > freeze dead-line. So all these can go only after branching for Evo-2.14
> > is done.
> 
> It seems obvious to me that this should be a per-account preference, or
> maybe it should be in the GNOME About Me control panel. As it is, it
> doesn't seem worth mentioning in the release notes, because it's not
> very usable if I have to specify an image file for each email that I
> send. Does that seem fair? 

Point taken :)

-Srini.
> 
> > Matthew: 
> > I was not aware of the ~/.face thing. I will try to use it in the next
> > release (after the freeze is over).
>