Comments on: Make your e-mail conversations better using happy faces

By: gamx

gamx — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:51:23 +0000

As far as I understand, x-faces is different thing. x-faces allows you to attach a picture to messages. But what Apple mail does is differently: messages that you receive from people in your addressbook display the photo you have from them. That is cool and I think that it shouldn’t be very difficult to implement in Evolution, shouldn’t it?

By: Peteris Krisjanis

Peteris Krisjanis — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:58:22 +0000

This is more or less why I don’t answer emails ASAP (at least not in 10 mins). Email tends to strip out any emotional contact, but nice picture of our email partner gives relax feeling.

It is also definite reason why I love IM pictures, like in Gmail/Pidgin/Jabber. You see persona and then you mentally connect it with your emails.

Yes, it is how our mind works. Maybe not for all.

@gamix: it has, but it has several serious bugs. Apple saves those pictures in vCard format, but it’s not so well supported by Evolution. It would be nice though to have it.

By: zen

zen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:17:06 +0000

@gamx: yes, it does, using old standard called x-face. It’s not the same, but still very amusing

By: gamx

gamx — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:29:58 +0000

It is a pity that Evolution does not support faces…