There are a few areas that I know still need work (these are from
the TODO list in the XFaces beta distribution:
- Add some label features to annotate images with count etc. for mail
items (currently in place for user command based lists)
- Add another pattern binding to allow shell commands to be executed
when the pattern is matched. Then when you had mail you could have
yourself paged. :^)
- Search performace.
And as I noted in the TODO file these are my next priority. Anyone
who feels that they want to take a stab at any of the other items on
the todo list should drop me a line to prevent too many people from
working on the same problems.
I am also looking for volunteers to help improve the documentation.
Anyone who feels they may want to take a stab at is is welcome to try.
(should propably drop me a line too.)
Currently the beta release is available via ftp from ftp.clark.net
in the /pub/liebman directory. There are four files of interest:
xfaces-3.0Beta.tar.Z - The XFaces sources.
compface.tar.Z - James Ashton compface library. (optional
X-Face header support)
netaudio-1.1.tar.Z - Network audio server. (optional audio support)
xpm-3.3.tar.Z - X Color Pixmap support library. (optional
color image support)
To edit xpm files you should retrieve pixmap2.2.tar.gz from the
/contrib/pixmap directory of ftp.x.org.
------------- From the changes file --------------
The major changes were to add compatibility support for
Rich Burridge's "faces" program:
- X-Face: header support.
- facedb image/sound search. (the way faces finds
images)
- User list commands.
- Labling of images for user list commands.
- The following faces options are supported:
-f <facedbPath>
-e <listCommand>
-p <update time>
-c <# of columns>
-h <image height>
-w <image width>
-s <mail spool file>
- POP mailbox support. (still primitive with respect to
user authentication but functional!)
- A new Tiled widget so that the image list can be N
columns and to allow for the "Rows=nnn Cols=nnn" line
from a user command.
- Full control of the order and imagetype/paths of searches.
The search types are:
- beforeImage,
afterImage,
beforeSound,
afterSound: These are regular expression searches
on the mail headers.
- resource: Lookup image/sound in X resources.
- facedb: Lookup image/sound in "faces" style
database.
- x-face: X-Face: style header.
- Much improved shape support.
------------- End from the changes file --------------
-- Chris
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