115186 - Improve emoticons in chatzilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Francisco León]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011208
BuildID:    2001121308

They are so small and low quality (average size is less than 200 bytes), made
with ovals (not circles) and again because of the quality, looks pixelated.

I have done a zip file with most of the faces-* gifs, with richer color and
quality, some taken from mail, some taken from gaim.

Unzip into your extensions/irc/xul/skin/images folder for testing

I tried them, and look a lot better, but still they look small to me, and i even
set the original size (14x14) , if you like them i will make them in original
size (between 17x17 and 19x19)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use emoticons
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Low sized gifs mean low quality

Expected Results:  They could be improved

Comment 1

[Francisco León]

Attachment: New set of icons, take 1

Probably will have to make them bigger

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

It's a zip file. I chose binary file, i guess i should have tried to put .zip
directly. Save it as a zip file to decompress.

Comment 3

[Robert Ginda]

The face icons were made small to they didn't affect the line height.  Even at
their current size they still add a pixel or two the line height.  I'd prefer to
keep them the size they are.

We could maybe redesign motifs a bit to allow folks to drop in new faces under
their current motif.

Also, face-frown, face-smile, and face-wink from that zip file look pretty bad
to me.  The others look ok to me at first glance, but how to they look against
light and dark motifs?

Comment 4

[Francisco León]

Our line height problem is making us use really small gifs
I dont know how trillian handles it (www.trillian.cc) but their irc client 
aren't bugged by the emoticons. I guess by default they make lines separated at 
some distance, so when an emoticon is inserted, the line height is not affected.

I specifically tested the images under the dark theme.

What are your issues with those 3 gifs you mentioned?

My main purpose in this bug, is to:
-Make the gifs have stronger color. Current ones are using a yelloy-ish color i 
dont properly know how to define it. The icons i provided use a pure, chicken-
like yellow, which is more "happy"

-Use circles for faces. Most of them are using ovals

-Polishness: current ones are not even 200 bytes of size, so they look 
pixelated, and even some images have spots.

I will take another shot at this when time permits

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Trillian doesn't "handle" them at all, really. You end up a 50% line-height gap
above lines with emoticons. :)

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

This is currently being worked on using the phoenity.com icon set.

Comment 7

[John J Foerch]

Currently working on a plugin to let ChatZilla use Gaim emoticon themes.  A
working version is at http://jjfoerch.com/dist  The filename is
emoticons.0.??.tar.gz.  Improvements are on the way.

Comment 8

[James Ross]

ChatZilla 0.9.65 has landed. I believe this bug is fixed now; if it is not
fixed, please re-open the bug stating why you don't believe it's fixed.

Until an XPI is made of 0.9.65, 0.9.64g will do as for testing as it is
basically the same codebase.