Doesn't Pidgin on Linux use a version that supports Emoji? Why not achieve parity?
Also, what "new version" of GTK is needed? I was trying the latest version of 2.x, my attempts at using 3.x failed completely. I have no experience of working with GTK, and frankly this experience feels like going to the doctor with a stomach ache and being told to manually remove my own appendix. Using the themes is hardly a solution since I doubt they have all of the unicode emojis that people use. That said, can you suggest one that is reasonable extensive? Thank you, Alex. On 2019-08-28 8:15 PM, Eion Robb wrote:
Hi Alex, The plugins might not load due to a bad version of libjson-glib that I built. It was built in such a way that it won't work on newer versions of gtk/glib. I've got a rebuilt json-glib dll that works with newer GTKs that you're welcome to try and see if it works. I'll send through the link shortly when I'm back at my computer We're talking about whether or not to include a newer GTK in the next Pidgin, but there are some downsides such as increased memory usage and more leaking GDI handles. Emoji support is a key proponent of updating though. Another option you can use is one of the unicode-emoji smiley themes, which convert unicode emoji characters into a png image. Cheers, Eion On Thu., 29 Aug. 2019, 12:04 , <pid...@alexoren.com <mailto:pid...@alexoren.com>> wrote: I mentioned the issue on the purple-discord github, and was told that the reason was that Pidgin on Windows uses an old version of GTK that doesn't support emoji. The suggestion was to manually upgrade the version of GTK but after spending hours trying to make it work, I gave up. I started from the GTK download page, which says: "Note: These instructions are intended for developers wanting to create Windows applications based on GTK, not for end-users. On Windows, GTK applications are typically bundled with GTK already, so end-users do not need to worry about how to install GTK itself." Nevertheless, I tried following the directions and ended up with the whole MINGW -- all 1.3GB of binaries. Replaced like-named DLLs in the GTP directory, chased DLL dependencies to find which additional ones need to be copied, replaced DLLs in the main Pidgin directory... After many hours I got to the point that Pidgin loaded but all the plug-ins failed to load. At that point I gave up and reverted. Can anyone help? If it's just a question of building Pidgin with a newer version, why won't the development team (for the lack of a better term) do it? Thank you. _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im <mailto:Support@pidgin.im> mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://lists.pidgin.im/listinfo/support
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