Re: [Evolution] How Does Evolution Manage Emoticons?

[Frank M Waterman <thepcmedicinia gmail com>]

Thank you SO much for this succinct explanation, Andre! This is just the sort of information I was looking for to begin my journey with! I appreciate you taking the time VERY much!

Kindest regards,

Frank

On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 00:20 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 15:48 -0500, Frank M Waterman wrote:
> > I am interested to know how Evolution manages the emoticons that are
> > built into it. They are what I call 'graphical emoticons'. That is,
> > they are colored and have faces which are not the same as an emoticon
> > created using Unicode or ASCII code (I don't think). If one sends an
> > email using .HTML, the emoticon looks like this:  , but if the sender
> > chooses to use plain text, it looks like this: 😀 (or something clos
> > e to that).
> >
> > I have been trying to find some information about these difference on
> > the web, but I fear my ignorance is so great that I don't even know
> > how to phrase the question correctly. Is there someone here who can
> > point me in the right direction, please?
>
>
> Technically speaking, the list of available emoticon entries (in the
> mail composer menu) is hardcoded in a source code file:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/src/e-util/e-emoticon-chooser.c#n36
>
> In plain text mode the corresponding Unicode character is inserted.
> Which is the third item in each row in that source code file.
>
> In HTML mode the corresponding icon gets loaded (from the theme your
> desktop environment is set to). Which is the second item in each row. 
> So for "face-smile" using the Adwaita icon theme,
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/adwaita-icon-theme/plain/Adwaita/256x256/emotes/face-smile.png
> gets inserted from the list of icons you can see at
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/adwaita-icon-theme/tree/Adwaita/256x256/emotes
>
> (Some developer feel free to correct my interpretation of code.)
>
> Cheers,
> andre