Playing around with Skype recently drawing out my curiosity to discover more and more of its 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.
Digging inside your Skype application, you can find 89 emoticons (according to my version). The path is :
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.
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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.
Frenchie, 1. Finder ▸ Applications ▸ Skype 2. Show Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents 3. Choose Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Emoticons ▸ Animated 4. Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset 5. Open Emoticons.plist, remove the two line from the icons you want to reveal; <key>Hidden</key> <true /> 6. Save Emoticons.plist 7. Close and relaunch Skype (** Note if icons still do not appear, also remove the tags from the Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset folder)
Starting from today is available the first "skype emoticons online editor"! You can find it at: http://www.skypemote.com With Skypemote you can draw your own skypeart and use it in your skype chats!!! Using Skypemote is so simple like drawing in your favourite paint program. Soon we'll set up blog and skypeart contests, stay tuned!!!
You guys should really check out http://www.SecretSkypeEmoticons.com over there you'll find a list of every skype emoticon out there!
help me please! i delete the wo lines from the emotions that i want to reveal but i just cant understand what to do next...
have the same problem as I don't understand what to do when asked to "remove tags from the Emotions.SkypeEmotionset folder". Thankx for understanding ;-)
Actually, you don't need to delete the tags, just need to grab the String, such as (mooning), or add a new shortcut for the emoticon and you're set :)
I've found an even better site, it's got flags as well! He's got the Skype default, the hidden ones and the flags of all countries: http://factoryjoe.com/projects/emoticons/ Enjoy!
Cool - I have been looking for a post like this that shows me where they were hidden. Thanks very much
Cool - can you do the flag icons that I can send on my work PC?
Thanks for the post I am going to have fun using these.
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These have been real fun to play with, I have pasted them on to my brothers, my kids and my dad.
I'm not sure what you mean by "grab the String" I removed the "hidden" codes and "true" then relaunched Skype, but the new emoticons didn't appear. What's the next step? Thanks.
What is finder??
You now that smiling box on your dock, that's Finder.
Phillip commented above: "Frenchie, 1. Finder ▸ Applications ▸ Skype 2. Show Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents 3. Choose Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Emoticons ▸ Animated 4. Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset 5. Open Emoticons.plist, remove the two line from the icons you want to reveal; <key>Hidden</key> <true /> 6. Save Emoticons.plist 7. Close and relaunch Skype " Apply the above to both the (Animated Emoticons.skypeEmoticonset) and the (Emoticons.skypeEmoticonset) folders. A shortcut to delete the two lines is to use the cmd F function to find and replace - it should find 15 to delete.
Pretty good one, I have tried without any problems. Just wondering if I can add my own animations ... tried but kind of not working.. once all saved and restarted, I don't get to see the pop up window with the icons.. I know, doing something wrong :) any hint?Thanks.
how can you make your letters like colourful on your personal message? thats the part of the information that i only need. who can tell me? when you get to know it can you please tell me. thAnK yOu! :)
can someone tell me how to do this on windows? cuz I can't seem to figure it out
This is the most simple way to make the hidden emoticons appear. But another option is to use a plugin that you need to install so that the hidden emoticons will appear on your Yahoo messenger the same thing as the default icons. But some say that it’s not compatible with some versions of Yahoo messenger.
Emoticons extends the basic capabilities of Skype emoticons window and enables you to use hidden emoticons and flag in the chat A great tool designed to enable Skype users an easy access toi hidden skyp emoticons
Superb tutorial, thanks! I know people have mentioned plugins but personally I prefer not to, your method is exactly what I was looking for - thanks
Great demo you have provided here, I checked out: http://www.SecretSkypeEmoticons.com and this was inspirational stuff, I love these quirky emotions.
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I DID THE FOLLOWING AND STILL HAD PROBLEMS: 1. Finder ▸ Applications ▸ Skype 2. Show Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents 3. Choose Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Emoticons ▸ Animated 4. Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset 5. Open Emoticons.plist, remove the two line from the icons you want to reveal; <key>Hidden</key> <true /> 6. Save Emoticons.plist 7. Close and relaunch Skype " Apply the above to both the (Animated Emoticons.skypeEmoticonset) and the (Emoticons.skypeEmoticonset) folders. ***when i saved the two documents, pop-ups showed and read: "Installation of emoticon set Animated Emoticons failed." "Installation of emoticon set Emoticons failed." What do I do now? i tried adding another shortcut, and I deleted those two lines to both files. ?
Sometime I want to ignore emoticon, because of reading text message.
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Nice post. Thanks for the info ..
hi, i can't seem to figure it out! so confusing! also, i don't have the <key>Hidden</key> <true /> on the Emoticons.plist
Thanks for the info, I used to suffer to make this in my forums
I just got skype to work on my mac. I didn'y even know about emotions so this is very cool!
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I have been using the delete <key>Hidden</key>
<true /> fonction for many years but now that skype upgraded to 5. It is not working anymore, skype does not lounch once the plist has been modified.
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I've modified the plist and Skype do not launch anymore. It seems like Skype is storing a signature key for each file in _CodeSignature/CodeResources xml file. My Animated Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonSet/Emoticons.plist have this entry there: <key>Resources/Emoticons/Animated Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset/Emoticons.plist</key> <data> IEG3a6HvR/p7iGS3W2DNJz1qdPY= </data> Anyone knows how to recalculate this key?
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