Re: [Evolution] Some Questions Pertaining to Evolution

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sat, 2017-03-18 at 13:31 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 21:50 -0500, Frank M Waterman wrote:
> > Currently I am using version 3.22.3.
> >
> > 1) There does not appear to be any means through which the default
> > size or type of font face may be selected for all outgoing messages.
> > Is this something that has or is being looked at for a future
> > release?
>
> There is a feature request but I am not aware of any plans:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568311

        Hi,
only to add a bit on this, the HTML content generated by evolution
itself (new messages) do not define font size at all, thus the font
size used depends on the default on the receiver's side.

> > 2) I love that someone thought to include emoticons for the
> > composition window! However, there are large swarm of emoticons that
> > have been approved by the Unicode Consortium (as of version 9.0)
> > which are not included in the composition window of Evolution (at
> > least not yet). I appreciate that many may regard emoticons as
> > frivolous and a waste of time, but I am bound to ask if there is a
> > way by which additional emoticons may be added to Evolution?
>
> The list seems to be hardcoded in
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/src/e-util/e-emoticon-chooser.c
> Which does not seem like a good idea in the long-run, but no good idea
> either how to present hundreds of emoticons in a sane way in the UI.

Right, the toolbar and menu bar contain hard-coded (predefined) subset
of emoticons. When talking of Unicode, I do not recall whether 3.20.x, 
but definitely 3.22+ has Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences->Use
Unicode characters for emoticons, which does what it says. With other
Unicode letters (not in the predefined set), if you know the character
code, then you can insert it on your own, just like "any other" Unicode
letter.
        Bye,
        Milan