RFE: Option to switch graphical smiley off in conversation window

[David Balazic]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at pidgin.im 
> [mailto:support-bounces at pidgin.im] On Behalf Of Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:14 AM
> To: David Balazic
> Cc: Pidgin Support List
> Subject: Re: RFE: Option to switch graphical smiley off in 
> conversation window
> 
> * 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.

Great! I did not know this feature.
It solves my problem 99,999% ;-)

Regards,
David