More Emoticons? Less Emoticons? Which Ones?

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'll try to get to this tonight, when at least I have a tablet.

[Gary Lewis]

Ok, I added Bronson and the rim shot.  And they are BIG, so you can see what happens to the drop-down.

What do you think?  I can make them smaller and still be able to recognize them, but they don't work down at the size of the others.

[kramttocs]

Personally, as much as I like the Bronson one, I would vote to leaving the flyout with just containing the basic 'head' style options

[Gary Lewis]

There is another way to go about this.  I have a temporary page set up on the forum for Smileys.  Right now it is just my holding area for smileys, and I have some in there which we are not using, as you'll see.  And, there is no real organization.  Plus, it is hidden in the menu.

I could organize it and un-hide it.  Then we could put whatever smileys in there we wanted.  So, instead of clicking the Smiley button and choosing one you could open that page, right click the smiley you want, click "Copy image address", click Insert Image and then paste the URL for the smiley into the "Or copy an image from the Internet" line.

And, having just added Ford's proposed emoticon, here's what happens when you do that (w/o resizing it):

[ArdWrknTrk]

It's weird how the smilies above the gifs expand and the rest shrink to fit on my phone in portrait.

[Gary Lewis]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

It's weird how the smilies above the gifs expand and the rest shrink to fit on my phone in portrait.

Take a screenshot?

[Gary Lewis]

By the way, have you noted how Ford has distinctively Ford styling cues in that pickup?  The dropdown in the door by the window and the taillight would be two of them.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Gary Lewis wrote

Take a screenshot?

[ArdWrknTrk]

Sure, why not?

They're the ones petitioning for it.

[Gary Lewis]

Yep, that's what I see.  

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'm going to need a stylus.

[Gary Lewis]

Your fingers are too big?  

[ArdWrknTrk]

Or my phone screen (at 3" wide) is too narrow.

My hands are pretty calloused, so there's not really pinpoint accuracy.

[Gary Lewis]

I took Charles and Ta Da out.  Not that doing so will make it easier, but it does clean it up.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'm usually pretty comfortable pecking away at the keyboard but those reduced smilies were just too much.

As they are now -all equal, except rotfl- I don't have any problem.

[Gary Lewis]

So you want me to reduce the size of ROTFL?  

[ArdWrknTrk]

No, no that's fine (however many pixels wide that is)

Just saying, like you did above, it leaves more whitespace..... horizontally.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Gary Lewis wrote

By the way, have you noted how Ford has distinctively Ford styling cues in that pickup?  The dropdown in the door by the window and the taillight would be two of them.

That s why I said it was Blue!

"Blue" ?   You know what I meant!

We MUST have the pickup truck emoji!!!  

[ArdWrknTrk]

Okay.
If this thread is going away, I'm going to leave some of the unicode emoji I put up for consideration.
With MY interpretation of their use. (no sweating aubergine here)

Explosion   U+1F 4A5    128165
Fire               "    525    128293  
Zany.            "    92A       " 322
Roll eyes       "    644        " 580
Party!           "    973
Shocked.      "    632         "582
Scream.        "    631        "561
Laugh tears    "   514      " 602
Cool.              "   526      " 60E
Anger.            "   620      " 549
Frustration.    "   616      "  534
Devil              "   47F      " 127
Skull              "   480
Raiseeyebrow "   928
Flex.              "   4AA
Applause        "   44F       " 079

Party.            "   389     127881

Nerd.            "    913     129299
Unicorn.        "    984     129212
Head Explode"    92F     129237

***and while they don't appear the same on all devices, they are Universal, so easy to understand.

Gary, I have NO idea what that was in Matthews thread. Maybe it looks different on Apple? ****

[Gary Lewis]

Jim - There are two threads with very similar titles:

More Emoticons? Less Emoticons? Which Ones?  This is the original thread.

Re: More Emoticons? Less Emoticons? Which Ones?  This is the thread that was created when I replied via email to Matthew's post.

I don't know why I couldn't respond to Matthew's post in the first thread, nor why when I did respond via email another thread was created.  But it is confusing and I'd prefer to move the salient bits to the first thread and kill this one.

However, you shared a lot of unicode smileys that may be very useful - but would be more useful if we could actually see them in this post.  So, I'll attempt to do so.

But, you say they are universal.  But since this forum (Nabble) doesn't use unicode and generates pictures, don't the smileys show the same on all devices?

Explosion   U+1F 4A5    128165  💥

Fire               "    525    128293   🔥

Zany.            "    92A       129322   🤪  🤪

Roll eyes       "    644        " 580   🙄

Party!           "    973     🮵

Shocked.      "    632         "562  😲

Scream.        "    631        "561  😱

Laugh tears    "   514      " 602   🙚

Cool.              "   526      " 60E   😎

Anger.            "   620      " 549   😥

Frustration.    "   616      "  534   😖

Devil              "   47F      " 127   👿

Skull              "   480   128128   💀

Raiseeyebrow "   928    129320   🤨

Flex.              "   4AA    128170  💪

Applause        "   44F       " 079   👏

Party.            "   389     127881   🎉

Nerd.            "    913     129299   🤓

Unicorn.        "    984     129412   🦄

Head Explode"    92F     129327   🤯