gSmile - emoticon manager
Copyright (C) 2005, Federico Pelloni <federico.pelloni@gmail.com>
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== gSmile ==
gSmile open-source emoticon manager
Version: 0.1.1
Written by Federico Pelloni <federico.pelloni@gmail.com>
Website: http://gsmile.sourceforge.net/ Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsmile/
== What is ==
gSmile is an open-source emoticon manager, with which you can store your emoticons and find them quickly whenever you need one of them.
You can organize your emoticons in many folders (also nested) and, with drag'n'drop, you can easily and quickly insert the right tag (with the emoticon url) in your web-browser. It could sound difficult or strange, but it is very simple and smart.
For example, if you need the emoticon `smile.gif`, whose URL is `http://www.site.com/emoticons/smile.gif`, and you have stored it into the `Happy` folder in gSmile, then you will only need to select the `Happy` folder, drag the emoticon you want and drop it on the right field in the web-browser. gSmile will insert for you `[img]http://www.site.com/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]`. You can of course change the tag from `[img][/img]` to whatever you want.
== Requirements ==
- Linux operative system
- X window server
- GTK+ toolkit, version 2.6 or higher
- Python 2.3 or higher
- PyGTK 2.5 or higher (Python GTK wrapper)
== Supported OSes ==
At first, and while in heavy development, gSmile will be developed, tested and supported to run on a Linux system. Compatibly with gSmile and dependencies compatibility a MS Windows version will be released.
== Features ==
- Emoticon drag-n-drop from and to the browser
- Customizable window appearence and behaviour
- Emoticons folders inside folders, with infinite depth
- Folder and emoticons reordering
- Most used, recent, ... emoticons Top10s
- Search function
- Multiple tagmode function: possibility of selection between many tags
to insert into browser form
- Emoticons-sets importing: capabilty of importing prebuilt sets of
emoticons
== File Formats ==
- Emoticons database will be an XML file (if needed, with an ad-hoc DTD)
- Emoticons will be stored "as they are", so .gif, .jpg, .png
- Emoticons-sets would probably be a .zip (or .tar.bz2) file containing XML and image files
== Interoperation capabilities ==
The user will be able to drag-n-drop emoticons between gSmile and the largest number of webbrowsers it would be possible. Also drag-n-drop from/to text-editors is possible (compatibly with GTK+ capabilities).
== Network ==
gSmile ability to get emoticons from the web depends on the capabilities of Python libraries and GTK+/PyGTK libraries.
(NOTE: this is the description submitted to Sourceforge.net staff for
the project approval. Some information in this text could not be
be accurate. I'm sorry, but I haven't the will to rewrite this...)