[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24970: Retina Smilies

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#24970: Retina Smilies
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 Reporter:  miqrogroove  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Formatting   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by nacin):

 There are a few facts of the matter. First, these smilies were
 commissioned by Matt, a co-founder of the WordPress open source project,
 and designed by Joen, who worked on these in his capacity as an employee
 of Automattic but is also an established contributing designer to the
 WordPress open source project. The designer who has been designing icons
 for WordPress since 2008 is now in possession of these files, and knowing
 him, he'll probably end up making a few minor adjustments. (They both can
 also create more, and toy with variants, etc.)

 Another fact is that WordPress would benefit from HiDPI smilies. We would
 also benefit from shipping smilies that were designed in the last decade.
 But the fact is, there's a lot of existing buy-in for something to change
 here. These smilies, if nothing else, provide a strong starting base.

 Let's not turn this ticket into a war over the subjective opinions of the
 design of any particular emoticon. And let's especially not turn this
 ticket into a non sequitur war over sanctity of content. Also, it really
 doesn't matter whether it is or isn't in Jetpack by WordPress.com, or in
 Example Plugin by example.com, or anywhere else, or how where it is or
 where it is not affects the ability for users to use them if they wanted.
 None of those arguments really matter in the end for what WordPress core
 should do. How we decide whether to include these, or some other smiley
 design, is not really going to be influenced by any of this.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24970#comment:16>
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