Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Description: It is possible to switch between different themes for emoticons, but not to disable them. As a workaround I thought about creating a "empty" theme, but failed to do so (see Bug#231770). In any case I would expect a nice checkbox to do so. How to reproduce: 1. Start systemsettings 2. Select Appearance 3. Select Emoticons There is no way to disable emoticons.
That probably has to be fixed in the individual applications that support emoticons; I know KMail has an option for this. So it would make sense to report bugs/wishes for the other applications. But I agree that a central option in systemsettings that applications can follow would be nice, too.
This KCM was removed in the transition from Plasma 5.19.5 to 5.20.0 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/3cd728de38b771c84c0cfdf68eac84715637e76f