MAR
02
Skype - Get Hidden Emoticons
Posted by Wendy
Playing around with Skype recently drawing out my curiosity to discover more and more of its emoticons.
Visible Emoticons
At first, I think Skype's emoticons are limited only to 72 default emoticons. Who knows that Skype actually has more hidden in depth.
Shown above : 72 Skype default visible emoticons.
Emoticons List
Digging inside your Skype application, you can find 89 emoticons (according to my version). The path is :
- Finder ▸ Applications ▸ Skype
- Show Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents
- Choose Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Emoticons ▸ Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset
- Show Contextual Menu again ▸ Show Package Contents
- Now, you're inside
Customizing Shortcut
Search for Emoticons.plist at the bottom of the list (still inside the last pane). Open it with TextEdit and you will see a lot of "alien" words there. Look for
Too complicated, isn't it? Let's go to example. You want to customize shortcut for Smile emoticon, which is by default :)
The emoticon filename is emoticon-0100-smile.png. Search for it and you will find something like
These will be the initial lines :
After adding new shortcut becomes :
Note that you will need administrator's authorization to do this.
COMMENTS
Setter
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Sensational!! Thanks... the middle finger is already a hit!
Frenchie
April 2nd, 2008 at 08:57 AM
Thanks a lot for this - I got all excited, but then when I went to make the changes you've set out, I found my Emoticons.plist file was different from your walkthrough example... The hidden emoticon 'nonsense talk' sections in the .plist file follow this pattern: </dict> <key>emoticon-0173-middlefinger.png</key> <dict> <key>Equivalents</key> <array> <string>(finger)</string> </array> <key>Name</key> <string>Finger</string> <key>Hidden</key> <true /> </dict> It's pretty clear that <key>Hidden</key> is playing a part in covering them up, but I'm not super puter-savvy and thus a little too timid to improvise... can anyone tell me what to do to reveal the hidden emoticons based on my .plist file as above? Thanks a bundle! F.
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