[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10145: Tango/GNOME smilies in core

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#10145: Tango/GNOME smilies in core
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 Reporter:  jdub         |        Owner:          
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.9     
Component:  Formatting   |      Version:  2.8     
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment(by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:16 Viper007Bond]:
 > Smilies should be bundled IMO. You can't just drop such a widely used
 feature that's been in the core for years.
 >
 > And it's dead easy, as proven above, to replace the smilies if you don't
 like the set that's in the core (whatever set that may end up being).

 Well, if we're going to leave them in core, then we really need more
 opinions to choose what they'll be. Because, quite frankly, I detest this
 new set. They uniformly suck, IMO. And judging by the reactions in that
 thread over on wp.com, I'm not the only one. So before we go changing
 things that are going to affect a lot of people and which are going to be
 more-or-less entirely opinion based, we should have some sort of
 information gathering.

 All I know is that I updated one of my 2.9-rare blogs and was shocked (and
 more than a little annoyed) to discover that a simple upgrade had changed
 my actual *content*. I was not happy about having to write an actual
 plugin to correct the problem. Before changing content on a few million
 blogs, we should at least ask the masses.

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