RFE: separate emoticons from their ASCII representation

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RFE: separate emoticons from their ASCII representation

Post by vlbrown »

I want to be able to set my own typed character sequences for emoticons.

I like some of them, but I'm a purist. :-) should be rendered as :-) not as some weird little gif.

I'm ok with [:bah:] or some other unusual character sequence but I do not want to be forced into using gifs where I think :-) has meaning of its own. It's like M$ Word doing AuthoFormat conversions for me on the fly... as if my email program automatically translated all of my words into synonyms.

Bah!

Please???????
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Post by evands »

Uncheck the specific emoticons you don't want.
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Post by sdh »

preferences > appearance > emoticons / customize
there you can edit your emoticons and as evands said, uncheck the ones you dont like.
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Um, I really _do_ understand how the preferences work

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I want what I said I want. I want to be able to _edit_ the ASCII character representation for a given gif.

Just turning off an emoticon is NOT what I want to do.
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Post by Wengero »

i dont know if this is the easiest way to do it but this is how i would do it(assuming its you downloaded it as an extra this will work)
go to ~/library/application support/adium 2.0/emoticons
find the emoticon pack you want to edit the value for and control click then press show package contents, look threw hear for a file called emoticons.plist and open it
hit the triangle next to root, then the triangle next to emoticons, then the triangle next to the emoticon you want to edit, then the triangle next to equivalents, double click on the letters to the right of the word string and put in your own combo
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Re: Um, I really _do_ understand how the preferences work

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vlbrown wrote:I want what I said I want. I want to be able to _edit_ the ASCII character representation for a given gif.

Just turning off an emoticon is NOT what I want to do.

That's what you described though. My understanding is that you wanted :-) to show up as :-) and not a emoticon. Which means that you'd disable the emoticon taking :-).

Honestly, just make a emoticon pack, and disabled all the other packs built into adium, or go download one and modify it.
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Re: Um, I really _do_ understand how the preferences work

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vlbrown wrote:I want what I said I want. I want to be able to _edit_ the ASCII character representation for a given gif.

Just turning off an emoticon is NOT what I want to do.
So you want :-) to appear as :-) and something like [:-)] to appear as :) ? What is the point of that if the codes do not mean the same to the person you are chatting to?

Under what conditions would you expect to see :) instead of :-) ?

You said "It's like M$ Word doing AuthoFormat conversions for me on the fly..." and now you are saying you want it to auto format?

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Post by sdh »

thats what i thought too..
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