[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[dman]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:57:48PM -0600, Peter Millard wrote:
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "dman" <dman at dman.ddts.net>
| 
| [munch]
| 
| > As long as the odd graphics and weird text mangling stays off my
| > screen, I don't care what else you do with them.  As you're trying to
| > devise a text mangling scheme for these emoticons, don't forget that
| > some people use IM systems to discuss coding or computer usage.  I
| > really hate it when AIM (where most of my friends on IM are) destroys
| > lines of shell commands that contain '<' or '>'.  At least exodus
| > doesn't have _that_ problem.  If someone (not me) has a coding style
| > of :
| >     j = func (i) ;
| > exodus and msn will be really bad for communication!
| 
| I agree that this sucks, and it's also why emoticon usage is an option in
| Exodus (as it should be in all IM clients). If you're a person who finds the
| emoticon usage getting in the way, then just turn them off. :)

Yeah, they should be turn-offable.  Just before I sent the message I
looked through the exodus' preferences and didn't see any switch for
it.  Did I just miss it, or where is it?

TIA,
-D

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