Re: [Evolution] Some Questions Pertaining to Evolution

[Frank M Waterman <thepcmedicinia gmail com>]

Thank you for responding to my questions, Milan. I appreciate that you took the time.

I have to laugh at myself! I was monkeying around in Evolution's preference settings for composing when I all but tripped over the section which allows the end user to define the font face and size that they want to use. I only glad in wasn't a poisonous snake I had been looking for! With that being said, I still think it would be a capital idea to make changing the font face and size from the composition window itself a goal. But I am sure many others before me have made a similar observation.

Regarding my question about emoticons: I concur that some sort of display of hundreds of emoticons would not be a practical idea, unless some terribly clever developer could discover a means for thumbnails of the emoticons to be displayed on a page separate from the composition windows, yet still a component of Evolution. As I am not a developer (yet), I have no conception about how difficult (or not) what I propose would be. In the interim though, could you please expand just a little bit on the 'Use Unicode characters for emoticons' feature? Do I understand you to say that, with that feature selected, if I type in the sequence of Unicode characters for which an emoticon has been created, the emoticon will be displayed in place of the keystroke combination? If this understanding is correct, will the sender as well as the recipient be able to see the emoticon?

I think that is enough wasting your time for now. I do appreciate you educating me more about this marvelous program!

Best regards,

Frank

On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 16:11 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:

> 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
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