Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Do you like smileys?

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

Il mer, 2003-10-01 alle 14:45, Christian Strauf ha scritto:
> Am Mit, 2003-10-01 um 19.01 schrieb Rodney Dawes:
> > I was asking if your code handled the case where it would turn text that
> > was not supposed to be a smiley, into one, rather than the specific case
> > of :0. For instance, I don't want (48) to end up being (4<smiley>
> > either.
> I agree that in any case, smileys in places where they are not intended
> to be are really annoying. I know this problem from when I used trillian
> on Windows. This leads me to my question: do we really need smileys? I
> personally don't like them because I always get the feeling that a
> program is messing with what I write. Of course I respect if people like
> them because they're fancy. But this can only mean that
> smiley-recognition and replacement should be optional, don't you think?

The ability to not-replace smilies is what should be optional. Or rather
it is a boolean option, and they should be graphical by default. Gaim
already has this option. It's fairly easy to do.

> Apart from that: I would bet that there's no single regexp that is
> perfect. I believe that you can definitely always construct cases where
> a regexp will fail to "smiley-fy" a text.
> 
> Christian
> 
> P.S.: I really hate if {:-) is something else than me with a straw hat.
> {<graphical smiley> looks ridiculous, right? ;-)