EB-lite emoticons (was Re: EB-lite feature requests)

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 04:31, A. Craig West wrote:
> On the subject of emoticons, I have successfully caused ebqt to draw a
> smiley in the appropriate place, but it was done using a kludge. I am now
> hacking the smiley code out of everybuddy and into eb-lite. The basic idea
> is easy, as it is trivial to include an XPM inline in a QTextEdit. The
> tough part will be adding UI for configuring it and choosing the smiley set
> to use.
Right. In fact, could you hold on a little bit with this? I'm not sure that 
this is the right way to go about emoticons. Especially considering how we're 
hoping for multiple UIs, we had some plans for common format for emoticon 
themes. Current thinking has an archive (ZIP file? Directory?) with an index 
file binding strings (eg ":-)") to filenames (eg "smile.gif"). This would 
allow us to make more specific emoticon sets for specific protocols, 
overriding the defaults with specified string bindings and images.

Thoughts?
Meredydd
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