SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a new message (Rich/HTML format). 2. Type ";-)" or ":-)" or ... in text, then send. 3. Reciepient gets this as smiley/plain text -- not automatically converted! OBSERVED RESULT Recipient sees simple smiley as typed! EXPECTED RESULT Recipient expects smiley replaced by colored emoji! SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: opensUSE Tumbleweed, all latest versions (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.20 KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This worked perfectly in earlier versions, with the colored emojis in Breeze style! Only workaround: add an emoji from "Add Smiley" in the toolbar once emojis are installed. By default, these are only black/white, one has to add manually colored emojics (another nuisance). All that was never necessary in earlier versions of KDE/Kmail (and is not the expected state-of-the art behaviour).
If you typed ":-)" that text was sent verbatim, and the viewer of that mail would need a configuration to convert these to images, in other words, if you configured to replace emoticons with images, _you_ were seeing images. With the Emoji standard slowly replacing ASCII emoticons, the expected behavior is to send Emoji. See also bug 424090.
Created attachment 133775 [details] attachment-3055-0.html Dear Mr. Feck, many thanks. And how can I configure to replace emoticons with images? In earlier versions of Kmail, that was done automatically. Now, sending ";-)" to myself remains simply ";-)". In the earlier versions, the emoji appeared. So how can this be changed? Please a short reply! Kind regards, B. Scheichl On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:44:58 CET Christoph Feck wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428641 > > Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED > Resolution|--- |INTENTIONAL > > --- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> --- > If you typed ":-)" that text was sent verbatim, and the viewer of that mail > would need a configuration to convert these to images, in other words, if > you configured to replace emoticons with images, _you_ were seeing images. > > With the Emoji standard slowly replacing ASCII emoticons, the expected > behavior is to send Emoji. See also bug 424090. -- Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. Bernhard Scheichl Technische Universität Wien | Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Tower BA/E322 | Getreidemarkt 9 | 1060 Vienna | Austria T: +43-1-58801-32225 | www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at<http://www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at/>
> Only workaround: add an emoji from "Add Smiley" in the toolbar This is not the workaround, but the intended way to add Emoji.
Created attachment 133782 [details] attachment-15962-0.html Thanks, but you said: "if you configured to replace emoticons with images, _you_ were seeing images." So the question is still: HOW can I configure Kmail to replace emoticons with images? When I understand you correctly, adding from "Add Smiley" in the toolbar now is the ONLY way to do this? It worked in the past automatically, so why was that sensible feature removed? Just your (final) answer please! Best, B. S. On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:02:27 CET you wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428641 > > --- Comment #3 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> --- > > > Only workaround: add an emoji from "Add Smiley" in the toolbar > > This is not the workaround, but the intended way to add Emoji. -- Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. Bernhard Scheichl Technische Universität Wien | Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Tower BA/E322 | Getreidemarkt 9 | 1060 Vienna | Austria T: +43-1-58801-32225 | www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at<http://www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at/>
Yes, I wrote "were", not "are". Configuring this was old behaviour that has been removed. The KEmoticons framework is being phased out, and developers are porting to the Emoji standard (finally, after being part of the Unicode standard since 2010).