140799 - Smiley face [emoticon] pull down for non-html [text] editing

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Todd]

Hi All,

   Would you add this to the wish list:  when composing a letter in text mode,
it would be really cool if I could use the smiley face pull down menu to
insert the text corresponding to the smiley face.  :)

Many thanks,
--Tony
[e-mail]

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

simply NO

Comment 2

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

sorry, this may sound a bit to rude..

I just think having any kind of images (even dynamically added) in a text-mail
would result in some users beliving there are real images..

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

I don't think that was quite the RFE; I think the reporter wants the text
corresponding to a smiley, not the smiley itself.  Personally, I think a menu
for typing in something that simple would be useless additional UI complexity,
but I defer to the module owner, etc.

Comment 4

[Todd]

Hi,

   No images!  Just the text equivalent.  (I can only remember the
sad and the smiley faces.)

Many thanks,
--Tony

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirming rfe....This could be somewhat useful at times (and is definitely
something the module owner should make a call on)....

Comment 6

[Todd]

Hi All,

   It is really easy to have the spirit or intention mis-interpreted when you
are writing an eMail.  The smiley faces step into the fray to help solve
the problem of not being able to see the senders facial expressions and
not jump to improper conclusions.  Problem: remembering what they when composing
a text message.  I really would love to see this functionality added.  :)  (I
think there is a super happy face, but ...)

--Tony

Comment 7

[Todd]

Err, that should have been "remembering what they 'are' when composing" :-[ 

--Tony

Comment 8

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 205405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Rob Stow]

I suggest adding "Emoticon" to the summary so people have at least an outside
chance of finding this bug when doing a search for it.   Nobody is going to
search for "smiley face" - particularly since that is just one of the many
emoticons.

Comment 10

[Todd]

Yikes, I just looked at 1.4rc1's HTML compose window.  Their side now has
SIXTEEN (16) pull down emoticons!  A lot of cools one too!  THERE IS NO
WAY I AM GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF THEM!  (I am up to four now.)  Can we
please get the text side implemented as well?

Many thanks,
--Tony
[e-mail]

Comment 11

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

The big UI issue I see is that when going from HTML -> Plain text, that menu bar
of formatting options goes away (obviously).

Keeping the bar for one pull down menu seems rather rediculus.  so I see 2 options:

1.  Plain text formatting:
-  Bold = *text*
-  Underline = __text__
-  Smilies (:-) ;-))

2.  Just put smilies in the insert menu.

#1 would be a whole other RFE, but would include this withing.  2 would be
slimmer, but harder to reach.  

I'm not sure I could do this, but I will look into it a bit, may be a bit
advanced for my understanding of the code right now.

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[Todd]

I would really love it if you implemented this in the current Thunderbird!
-T (original poster)

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420

Comment 16

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Still a valid enhancement request.

Comment 17

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

This bug is for the (text) compose window. Moving to MailNews:Composition