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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 monochromeXBM
format or colorXPM
andGIF
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 following variables offer control over where things are located.
gnus-picon-databases
("/usr/lib/picon"
"/usr/local/faces")
.
gnus-picon-news-directories
gnus-picon-databases
for
newsgroups faces. ("news")
is the default.
gnus-picon-user-directories
gnus-picon-databases
for user
faces. ("users" "usenix" "local" "misc")
is the default.
gnus-picon-domain-directories
gnus-picon-databases
for
domain name faces. Defaults to ("domains")
. Some people may
want to add `"unknown"' to this list.
gnus-picon-file-types
("xpm" "gif" "xbm")
minus those not built-in your Emacs.
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