Version: 1.0 (using 4.3.2 (KDE 4.3.2), Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Official) for i586) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb I tried to delete the ":x" (and others :-X :-x ...) string for the "kiss" smiley in Kopete, but it did not applied to the conversation. I re-opened the configuration window, and the smiley had the default string (with the :x and the others). It seems that the changes are not correctly saved.
kubuntu 10.10 kde 4.6.2 Emoticons are stored in /usr/share/emoticons/ and that is only writable for root. Therefore a normal user can't change the emoticons in this directory.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 231327 ***