[Adium-devl] feature request: encoding theme identification informations into messages (trivial)

[Christopher Forsythe]

I have multiple packs installed because I tried them out, but then I disable
them. How do you propose to address the issue of enabling emoticons that
people explicitly disable?

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Duplon <duplon at majorgames.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my girl friend's client would send something like: Good morning honey
> <emoticon theme="QIP Russian Edition">:-*</emoticon>
> and I would send something like: Good morning darling <emoticon
> theme="Monkey Mania Emoticons">:-*</emoticoin>
> and both sides would see the correct icon if both themes would be
> installed.
>
> The MSN-approach seems to not rely on the receiver side having the
> correct theme installed, which seems more straight forward, but
> complicated and MSN-protocol specific, too.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Duplon
>
> Am 27.07.2008 um 05:46 schrieb Colin Barrett:
>
> > Can you give an example of what markup you would want? I'm unclear
> > what exactly you want...
> >
> > -Colin
> >
> > On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Duplon <duplon at majorgames.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello folks,
> >>
> >> when users use different emoticon sets the differences in them might
> >> lead to misunderstandings, so it would be really nice if theme
> >> identification data would be packed into messages. Depending on the
> >> protocol I have a simple idea: Put emoticons within an own xml tag or
> >> send the tag at the beginning of each message, which non-compatible
> >> html/xml parsers would ignore. I see that the approach of MSN
> >> (http://
> >> trac.adiumx.com/ticket/506) is more straightforward, but this hack
> >> seems trivial to me and I wouldn't be forced to use the emoticon set
> >> my girl friend uses ;-)
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Duplon
> >>
> >>
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