Continuing the discussion from [Paid] Need a Vanilla 2 Import tool:
Just by curiosity, is it potentially easilly doable to have a custom list of emoticons/emoji?
Continuing the discussion from [Paid] Need a Vanilla 2 Import tool:
Just by curiosity, is it potentially easilly doable to have a custom list of emoticons/emoji?
The users on our forum dislike the default emojis, in particular the ālaughingā smiley so on my app.yml in the custom command section I have a line that backs up the default laughing.png and then it wgets the replacement smiley and writes it as laughing.png in the public/plugins/emoji/images folder. The custom smiley then shows up whenever that smiley is used so it should work if you donāt mind over-writing the existing smileys. Aside from that Iām sure you could copy the emoji plugin and replace it with all your own smileys for a better solution.
A configurable mapping from full :code:
-style emojis to custom images should be about as hard as a configurable mapping from ASCII-style emotions to :codes:
ā¦ and it would make a lot of sense to implement both in the same UI.
Many of my fellow staff have voiced negative opinions about the emoji smilies. eg. āthey look evilā.
I have looked into writing a plugin to allow the ātraditionalā vB smilies - and the ācustomā SitePoint smilies - but have been side-tracked by Real Life latey and havenāt gotten very far with it.
Collaboration in this regard is most welcome.
I get the same feedback from the users on our forum too. I would be very interested in this as well.
Evil? Do they object to a few specific smileys or the whole set?
I actually quite like most of these smileys, exceptā¦
:smile:
vs. , the emoji is too happy for a default smile.:grin:
vs. , here the emoji is really badly designed and looks more like fletched teeth.:stuck_out_tongue:
vs. , compared to what Iām used to, the emoji is too neutral.:frowning:
vs. , the emoji seems to espress more distress than sadness.And obviously, a few oldies but goldies are just plain missingā¦
I pretty much 100% agree on those nitpicks, if a super designer wants to take a crack at improving them we would be more than happy to replace.
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Evil? Do they object to a few specific smileys or the whole set?
[/quote]I think I may have started the revolt on our instance, and my word was āsinisterā - which is how I see all the yellow face smilies. Most of the others are fine, and Iām particularly partial to the . For the others, at the moment, I just cheat.
The current emojis look like theyāre lifted directly from Apple.
Edit: Ah yes, they are:
All other images
Copyright (c) 2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
Personally I think the Microsoft emojis look a little better. And the Google emojis have some really good facial expressions but I had some very negative feedback on our forum when I tried them out.
I donāt think the Apple ones really fit in anywhere anymore - especially since iOS6 is long gone. My personal preference out of the three sets is the Microsoft ones, Iām probably just more used to them though. I like some of the Google ones but a lot are justā¦ odd.
My all time favourite emote pack is Rice Balls by David Lanham
I think the conclusion to draw is to enable custom smileys - perhaps a single plugin that admins can load different emote packs into, and add extras to? Part of it would be resolving which key combo renders which image.
Also, is definitely happier than
Of course, the list could also use a :headdesk or :facepalm of some sort. Iāve also got a couple of favorites from other contexts:
can we change custom emoticon now?
+1
I would like to know this too. Isnāt there a directory with all the smileys as .pngs or a sprite we could replace with custom ones?
If you are on latest, yes. You can add custom ones in the admin area.
FYI, youāve been able to do it via a plugin for a while now too.
Pretty sure you canāt since I havenāt pushed that feature yet
I donāt think custom emoji are in yet, but as part of the ongoing work for the 1.2 release
select sets of emoji (Twitter, Google, Apple, EmojiOne) ā this is done
add custom emoji (:garbage:
or :trollface:
or :whatever:
) ā this is not done yet
Oh, I thought I saw somewhere you posted a commit for it, but Iām glad to be wrong
Oh youāre slick! Now I see you have committed it.