> On set. 12, 2014, 9:31 p.m., Eike Hein wrote: > > This is a pretty complex problem area. I hesitantly agree that adding the > > Unicode emojis to KEmoticons is probably a good stopgap solution (and I'd > > recommend also adding DoCoMo's private area mappings, since they're widely > > used as well by Asian IM services). > > > > Longer-term though, with emoji rendering moving into font stack (either > > using Microsoft's layer glyphs extension, or Mozilla's embedded SVG glyphs) > > we'll have to consider whether keeping KEmoticons in the present form makes > > sense. Most user-desirable themes will be circulated as fonts by that > > point, since OpenType is obviously more widely supported than KEmoticon's > > theme format. > > > > Emoji support then mostly becomes an input problem on the desktop end, i.e. > > it's about how to easily input emoji code points and string replacement > > from things like ":)" makes more sense sender-side than recipient-side. > > KEmoticons should probably provide something for that, and maybe also a > > simple graphical emoji IME. > > > > Theme support then becomes a font settings problem - cf. also > > https://blogs.kde.org/2014/09/11/beyond-unicode-closing-gap-support-mixed-character-set-text-kde-workspaces > > > > So ... +1 for now, but that's not the last time we'll talk emoji I guess ...
Yes, this subject needs to be well thought out. Could the Emoji One emojis be used? They are GPL: http://www.emojione.com/developers - David ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120173/#review66379 ----------------------------------------------------------- On set. 12, 2014, 9:17 p.m., David Gil Oliva wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120173/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated set. 12, 2014, 9:17 p.m.) > > > Review request for KDE Frameworks. > > > Repository: kemoticons > > > Description > ------- > > KEmoticons can't correctly parse unicode emoticons. They mostly show as > little squares or (some of them) as little black and white emoticons, but > they aren't parsed to the emoticons in the Glass theme. > > This patch adds unicode emoticons to the emoticons.xml file so that they are > translated to the theme images. > > The problem is that the available themes don't have enough emoticons and some > information is lost in the translation, but that can only be fixed with a > complete theme that someone has to make. Fortunately, some people are already > working on it [1] :-D . > > The codes of the unicode characters that I have added can be seen with 'less' > for review. Otherwise, I don't know how it can be reviewed. > > [1] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=122712 > > > Diffs > ----- > > themes/Glass/emoticons.xml dad55e2 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120173/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > I tested with kemoticonstest, in the test folder. > > It doesn't work with Qt 5.2. It works with Qt 5.4. I haven't tested with Qt > 5.3. > > > Thanks, > > David Gil Oliva > >
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