emoticon support needs improvement

[petere78]

A Debian user reported the following: Emoticons should only be substituted when they are at the end of a word (i.e., a space, comma, !, period, newline, or EOF follows). Otherwise some strange things happen when you send messages which contain unconventional text.

When copying from a licq window, the underlying text should be copied, not skipped just because licq interprets it as an emoticon. (Especially in chat history)

Regarding copying behavior, in URL links which are recognized and underlined by licq, it is inappropriate to perform emoticon substitution, because then the user cannot copy and paste the URL into the browser.

[wwp]

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If I'm not wrong, Gaim and MSN do the same as Licq. So it happens many times that text containing ":" is replaced w/ a graphical emoticon..

My 2 cts.

[petere78]

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Gentoo has developed a patch with the apparent intention to allow users to turn off emoticons. Maybe this could be integrated. http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/net-im/licq/files/1.3.0-no_stupid_koloboks.patch?hideattic=1

[emostar]

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petere78:

That patch doesn't add any new behaviour to Licq. The same thing can be done by setting the emoticons to "None" in the Skin Browser (Main Menu->Skin Browser). If it's set to "None", there will be no automatic replacement.

[denisq]

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yes, i agree to him! IMHO you should rewrite a bit the emoticon support because once i wanted to add some, i did not understand how the config worked! it's a simple list of text-smilies.... why don't you do it like Gaim, there is an entry for each file and it's apropriate text-symbol! that much more logical and easier to use! (i wanted to add the original icq 4 emoticons because none of the licq ones are really nice and expressive!)

[erijo]

Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283905

[erijo]

Patch for the second part.

[erijo]

As of r4550, all issues in this ticket have been fixed.

[erijo]

Forgot to set the milestone.

[anonymous]

Milestone 1.3.4 deleted