Re: [Evolution-hackers] Call for Release Notes

["Sankar P" <psankar 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? 

Only the first time the user selects "Insert Face" he will be prompted
for an image. On subsequent times, the old selected image itself is
used. 

However, I accept that it is not so user-friendly at the moment. So I am
okay to not mention it in the release-notes.

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