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Important! GTalk Emoticons v0.1 is INCOMPATIBLE with the latest release of GMail. Please disable the extension if you already have it installed.

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GTalk Emoticons is a Firefox Extension which adds support for additional emoticons to Google's web-based GTalk.

Note: This doesn't affect the standalone Windows client in any way.

Contents 1 Installation 2 Features 2.1 Supported Emoticons 2.2 Currently Unsupported Emoticons 3 Missing Features 4 Compatibility 5 Licensing 6 Developer Notes 7 Comments

Installation

Important! At this time, GTalk Emoticons is not compatible with GMail - please do not install it.

Uninstalling

If you decide you don't like GTalk Emoticons and want to remove it, just follow the official Firefox extension uninstall steps (mozilla.org)

Features

To use GTalk Emoticons, simply enter valid emots into a GMail in-browser chat sesison.

Nearly all MSN and Yahoo emots are supported:

• MSN Emoticons: http://messenger.msn.com/Resource/Emoticons.aspx
• Yahoo Emoticons: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/messenger/win/im/im-12.html
• Yahoo Extended Emoticons: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/messenger/win/im/im-13.html

Supported Emoticons

Textual lists of currently supported emoticons:

Gmail Defaults

<3 :(|) \m/ :-o :D :( x-( B-) :'( =D ;) :-| =) 
:-D ;^) ;-) :-) :-/ :P =P }:-) +/'\

MSN Emoticons

:-) :) :-O :o ;-) ;) :-S :s :'( (H) (h) (A) (a) 
:-# 8-| :-* <:o) :^) |-) (Y) (y) (B) (b) (X) (x) 
({) :-[ :[ (L) (l) (K) (k) (F) (f) (P) (p) (@) 
(T) (t) (8) (*) (O) (o) (sn) (pl) (pi) (au) (um) 
(co) (st) (mo) :-D :d :-P :p :-( :( :-| :| :-$ :$ 
:-@ :@ (6) 8o| ^o) +o( 8-) (C) (c) (N) (n) (D) (d) 
(Z) (z) (}) (^) (U) (u) (G) (g) (W) (w) (~) (&) 
(I) (i) (S) (E) (e) (M) (m) (bah) (||) (so) (ap) 
(ip) (mp) (li)

Yahoo Emoticons

:) :( ;) :D :-/ :x :"> :p :-* :* :-o :O x( X-( :> 
B-) b-) :-s #:-s :| :-B :-b =; I-) 8-| :-& :-$ :o) 
[-( 8-} (:| :-? #-o :@) :(|) ~:> @};- %%- **== (~~) 
~o) 8-X >-) :-L :-L [-o< @-) $-) :-" :^o b-( [-X o-> 
o=> o-+ (%) :-ss :-w :-< l-) i-) :-j

Currently Unsupported Emoticons

These emoticons are currently unsupported:

MSN Emoticons

*-)

Yahoo Emoticons

;;) >:) :(( :)) /:) 0:) =D> 3:-O *-:) =:) <):) :)>- 
\:D/ >:D< =P~ o:-) 

Missing Features

You may notice that some feature or other is not available. Among the most commonly requested are:

• Mouse-over tips - The ability to hover over an emot in the chat and see which character combination causes it.
• Emoticon Menu - A pop-up menu of all supported emoticons, which are added when clicked.
• More Emoticons - Support for emoticons from other popular chat clients and services such as Skype and Trillian.
• Less Emoticons - Support for removing emoticons entirely in lieu of plain text (not sure yet how many people would use this).

If there is enough popular demand, I might implement these features, time permitting of course.

Compatibility

GTalk Emoticons has been tested on Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 in Windows and Linux.

Licensing

This extension started out as a Greasemonkey Userscript, which was "compiled" into a full-fledged extension whith the help of Anthony Lieuallen's Greasemonkey Script Compiler, which is released under the GPL.

Greasemonkey itself, created by Aaron Boodman, is released under The MIT License (see Greasemonkey's license.txt)

All source-code created specifically for GTalk Emoticons is also released under The MIT License.

Developer Notes

GTalk Emoticons is developed as a Greasemonkey Userscript called Gmailtalkemoticons.

It is fully functional as a Userscript, and those interested are encouraged to install it via this method, forgoing the full extension.

Note: The Userscripts.org page for this is http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6849

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