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Bug 698435 - Clarify embedding and displaying of faces / X-Face in user docs for outgoing email
Clarify embedding and displaying of faces / X-Face in user docs for outgoing ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: User Documentation
3.10.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: 3.16
Assigned To: evolution-user-docs
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-20 09:20 UTC by André Klapper
Modified: 2015-03-10 20:44 UTC
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Description André Klapper 2013-04-20 09:20:15 UTC 
Disabling <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Plugins</gui><gui>Face</gui></guiseq> has no effect at all, it seems that only <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Mail Preferences</gui><gui>Headers</gui><gui>Show the photograph of sender in the message preview</gui></guiseq> has any influence, and the option is also shown when <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Plugins</gui><gui>Face</gui></guiseq> is disabled.

Found when retesting steps in help/C/mail-displaying-sender-photograph.page.
Evolution 3.6.4 on Fedora 18.
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2013-04-20 12:34:45 UTC 
Face plugin merely sets a "Face" header on _outgoing_ emails.

http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/

Not all that useful in my opinion, but if it's to be kept it should be more integrated with the mail composer.

"Face" and "X-Face" headers in _received_ mails are shown automatically by the built-in mail formatting library.

The "show photograph of sender" feature is something differently entirely.  It attempts to find a photograph of the sender of an email from your address books based on the sender's email address.  This is also built-in and not a plugin.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2013-04-20 12:54:43 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Face plugin merely sets a "Face" header on _outgoing_ emails.

Ahaha, those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't, and the plugin does say "outgoing" already. 
Hence invalid for the codebase (sorry for the noise).

Moving to docs component to make help/C/mail-displaying-sender-photograph.page cover faces more generally (incoming manually, incoming embedded, outgoing embedded).
Comment 3 André Klapper 2013-04-20 13:46:25 UTC 
Automatic incoming is covered now:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=513789838df36eb201187f05835591ef680ca181


Outgoing not working for me:

<andre> mbarnes: using the "Face" plugin for outgoing mail does not work for me (tried with a 500kb one). Any idea how large an image file can be, or if gets downscaled somehow?
<mbarnes> andre: has to be a 48 x 48 PNG, but I believe it scales it down
<mbarnes> or the plugin could be broken for all I know