AIM smiley handling option?

zboy · Post by **zboy** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:30 pm

maybe this has already been covered, but I was wondering if it would be possible to add an option to enable more AIM-like handling of smilies.

What I mean by that is faces like :P and :/ remaining as text like in the official AIM client. I often used :P and :-P as different faces in aim, but when I'm in adium, I see a graphic with both methods, while the person I'm talking to only sees it with the latter.

Post by **jstamos** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:12 pm

It is completely up to the other end to interpret the smilies. We can't make their

become an emoticon.

That said, one of the non-AIM protocols most likely supports

, so naturally an emoticon would be displayed then. It's slightly unavoidable on a multi-protocol system such as Adium.

Post by **evands** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:12 pm

Preferences->Emoticons. Uncheck the smileys you don't want to see. Alternately, disable the smiley pack. Alternately, download and use one or more different smiley packs from adiumxtras.com.

zboy · Post by **zboy** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:25 pm

evands wrote:Preferences->Emoticons. Uncheck the smileys you don't want to see. Alternately, disable the smiley pack. Alternately, download and use one or more different smiley packs from adiumxtras.com. :)

In the preferences, for the face with a tounge sticking out, :-p is shown the example. What I'm saying is that adium also converts my :p to the same graphic, which is what I would like to turn off. I still want the faces on, and I still want :-p to work, just not :p...

Post by **evands** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:02 am

Ah hah.

That's a bit more customization than the emoticon preferences offer. You can make it happen easily, though, if you don't mind getting your hands a bit dirty. Right click on the Adium app icon, choose Show Package Contents. Navigate Contents->Resources->Emoticons->Default.AdiumEmoticonSet. Edit the emoticons.plist file within that bundle to not have the emoticon you don't want to see.

zboy · Post by **zboy** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:37 am

evands wrote:Ah hah.

That's a bit more customization than the emoticon preferences offer. You can make it happen easily, though, if you don't mind getting your hands a bit dirty. Right click on the Adium app icon, choose Show Package Contents. Navigate Contents->Resources->Emoticons->Default.AdiumEmoticonSet. Edit the emoticons.plist file within that bundle to not have the emoticon you don't want to see.

Easy enough

Thanks! And props to the great app..I had even gone back to the official client from Fire...but you got me away from it again.