Re: [Gaim-devel] Smiley Descriptions

[Peter L. <spa...@si...>]

G'morn all,
I don't know if this an AdiumX smiley bug, but my mate on AdiumX AIM has 
selected the Yahoo smileys (because he spends a lot of time in Yahoo), 
and insists on using them in AIM. As a recipient of these errant 
smileys, it's annoying as I have to then open a yahoo smiley theme and 
work out what the heck he means. Basically what I'm saying, is even 
though the selector for AdiumX looks neat,  it's either buggy or their 
users stuff it up by not understanding how to drive it.

What I think would be preferable is some method by which gaim can be 
configured for detecting multiple-protocol similar smileys. For example, 
: - / in AIM has it's closest looking picture relative as : - S in 
Yahoo. Using my proposed scheme, if I input : - S on an AIM chat, it 
would be translated to : - /. Inputting : - / in Yahoo, would either be 
translated to : - S or sent as the Yahoo : - / depending on theme 
preference. ( : - / in Yahoo differs in my personal interpretation of 
what the picture actually 'means'). Yes, this introduces a horrid 
concept of prioritising individual smileys, and relies on individual 
human interpretation of what a smiley actually means. Of course, 
priorities should be themable.

However, an RFC on smileys would be my ultimate preference :-)

My $0.05c

Pete.


Jeffrey Melloy wrote:

> Gary Kramlich wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 08:26 -0600, Tim Ringenbach wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Personally, i'd also like to come up with a way to make multiple 
>>> smiley themes apply at once, but everyone seems to think that would 
>>> make the UI too complicated.
>>>
>>> --Tim
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Just do like i did for guifications, and add a checkbox for
>> loaded/enabled in the theme list.
>>
>>  
>>
> Adium's solution.
>
> Jeff
>
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