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iftomkins's avatar
iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

Custom emoticons/emoji?

Greetings! The default emoticon experience feels a bit outdated, so I'm looking for options to replace it. 

 

Any plans on Lithium's part to update this? I came across the phantom open emoji set, which looks pretty solid! It parallels the well known apple emoji set, and is free to use: Emoji unicode tables,Github page

 

A couple questions: 

  • I read on the forums a while ago that Lithium customer support can do this on your behalf. Is this still the procedure to follow?
  • If we chose to use the Phantom emoji set, can we provide the SVG files to Lithium, or would we have to convert them to PNGs or another format?

Thanks!

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago

    Hi iftomkins 

     

    Lithium comes with default emoticons packs, but this doesn't mean that they can't be extended with other ones. Actually - there are quite a few examples of customers using their own emoticons packs.

     

    It is advisable to get in touch with Professional Services to review all the requirements and make sure that everything is taken into account (from the format required to the impact to existing emoticons if any etc...)

     

    Thanks,

    • TeroRe's avatar
      TeroRe
      Executive
      10 years ago
      Hi,

      If customer add Emoji (from his device, not our emoticons) to his post, does posting works at all? Does he get some error message?
    • iftomkins's avatar
      iftomkins
      Maven
      11 years ago

      Thanks, I've reached out via support@lithium.com!

       

      As a feature suggestion for Lithum, I think a style update of the WYSIWYG editor may be in order. The modal windows are pretty old school.

      • iftomkins's avatar
        iftomkins
        Maven
        11 years ago

        I heard back from Support (so fast!), and it sounds like this will be an additional project scoping/pricing/$$$. Maybe not worth it in that case.

         

        Looking forward to the editor update! In the meantime, is it possible style the editor modals with CSS in our skin's CSS?