RFE: Option to switch graphical smiley off in conversation window

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* David Balazic had this to say on [07 Jul 2009, 18:14:45 +0200]:
> Hi!
> 
> I kindly request a feature (best done as a menu item under Options
> in the chat windows) to turn off smileys.
> 
> Rationale:
> sometimes strings that matches smiley appear in text, but not used as
> smiley. For example if someone pastes some XML, it can contain the
> string "xmlns:ds=...". The ":d" part is recognized as a smiley, so
> the text is renedered like "xmlns(:D)s=..." and as that more or less
> unreadable.
> 
> Changing the smiley theme in Preferences to "none" does not help, as
> it does not affect existing chat text.

We don't quite have this feature [yet]. However, you can select a
portion of text in the conversation window and select 'Disable smileys
in selected text' option from the right-click menu.

Sadrul

> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
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