Version: 0.5 (using KDE 3.0.4) Installed from: Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker Compiler: gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.19-16mdk Would be nice if Trillian smileys were supported, especially the sound effects.
Trillian has Skins and every Skin can define its own set of emoticons. From the other side you cannot know which Skin is selected so we end up guessing which is a bad idea. Kopete is meant to be a generic Instant-Messenger, it's not meant to be specialized for a ton of different peers.
Then why not add Trillian skins support (it's VERY VERY LOW PRIORITY, we agree). I have Windows box this weekend. I may fiddle with Trillian to see the skins format.
Would it be more productive, if Kopete is to be a generic messenger, to instead add the ability for Kopete users to define their own emoticon sets, and provide predefined optional sets for MSN or certain Trillian skins, as appropriate? I would think that the best philosophy to take with a generic, extensible messenger such as Kopete is to not build anything in, but to make as much as possible optional and configurable. This has the added advantage that anyone can contribute to the collection of predefined emoticon sets, and we don't force anyone to use anything they don't want.
That's already in the works, in CVS the emoticon-mapping is defined by a XML-File in the Theme-Dir. There is already a Theme for MSN and it's easy to do exactly the same for Trillian.
>Then why not add Trillian skins support (it's VERY VERY LOW PRIORITY, we >agree). I have Windows box this weekend. I may fiddle with Trillian to see the skins >format. Goddamn NO. We want to look like KDE and not like something a stupid Skin defines. When Kopete was thought up we soon settled on the idea to form a fully-KDE-compliant InstantMessenger and this rule is not gonna change, especially not for ugly skins like Trillian has.
OK. In fact, just wanted the emoticons and sounds attached (never tested Trillian, so did not knew how it worked). For appearance, the combination Keramik + Crystal is far better than a 1 skin / 1 app concept. So if emoticon mapping is in the works (does it include sound schemes ?), we can switch the status to Resolved.
It's just emoticons so far, there is no support for sound upon special texts but anybody can add it easily in plugin-form. Emoticon-support will become a plugin too in the future but currently we are busy fixing bugs for 0.5.1 and our new chatwindow for 0.6 (both is quite a bit of work).