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Messenger's default smileys can't be changed

Submitted by Aethec on January 24, 2010 to Annoyance

You can't change WLM's default smileys.
It's annoying because sometimes you find really good smileys, but you can't really use them since ":-)", ":-(", etc are already used.

Allow us to change the default smileys, and maybe add a "Reset default smileys" button.

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Discussion (3 comments)

.Chris wrote on February 4, 2010, 12:54am

to be honest, they need to introduce a whole new line of smiles. Some of these have been around since version 1.0 and most since 4.6/4.7

.Chris wrote on February 4, 2010, 12:54am

and that was the MSN days. These scream MSN

JJohnson wrote on February 10, 2010, 10:01pm

I would go one further and say get rid of this popup, and make the entire list of smileys a slide-out sidebar. I have quite a few additional smileys, and it would be easier to click on them if I didn't have to open the 'additional smileys' dialog, then double click to insert, then close to continue typing. Much easier to have a persistent sidebar, then double click on a smiley, and keep going.

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