Re: [Kmess-devel] Emoticon style support

[Jan <jan...@we...>]

Hi folks...

Am Sonntag 18 Dezember 2005 22:51 schrieb Diederik van der Boor:
> Hi,
>
> I've committed my current work for emoticon theme support. This patch was
> mostly based on the work of Haris. I've mostly changed the GUI parts in t=
he
> settings dialog (moved it to a separate page).
>
> The emoticon themes integrate with the existing themes in KDE. I've updat=
ed
> the pics folder so it installs the emoticons in
> $KDEDIR/emoticons/KMess-new/
>
> There are some things that still need to be done, but I've completed the
> basic functionality. Some of the things I want to add later:
> * KHotNewStuff, so new themes can be downloaded.
> * A new emoticon selector, as new sidebar panel as Jan and others
> suggested.=20

I can't really wait to see that working ;-)

> * Add a preview bar to the bottom of the settings page.=20
>
> And I've got a few questions left unanswered:
> * Should we really integrate with the KDE emoticon themes? There are not
> really an added value for an msn-only client. Maybe we should offer our o=
wn
> theme folders instead after all.

I think it is a good idea to integrate with the default KDE emoticon themes=
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But I think it is important, to have a "kmess-emoticon-themes" folder, as=20
well, and having our own theme selected by default.=20

> * I've currently named our emoticon theme "KMess-new", maybe someone has a
> better name?

no idea (yet) ;)

> * Should we resize the emoticons again? Currently it displays the emotico=
ns
> at their original size, so the various themes look correctly.

I remember that a long time ago, I was discussing with Mike that question=20
after the Cartoon-Emoticons appeared, as they had a different size like the=
=20
ones Dave created initialy. The problem that appeared was, that the=20
chat-style was looking kinda strange, because it was screwed up by the bigg=
er=20
size of the cartoon ones, but i think as it is it is good now ;)

> I'm eagerly waiting for your idea's about these questions :)
>
> Greetings,
>   Diederik

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Gru=DF,

Jan