Abandon Emoticons in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

The emoticons are out of time.

The current implementation uses images that either have to be selected from a special overlay menu or are used via text replacement.
Managing or using your own emoticons is time-consuming.

At the same time, the appearance is not at all comparable to that of emojis.

(Emojis are not yet fully usable because this is related to processing and storage in the database. This abandon request does not introduce the emojis that are known across OS or guarantee support of this in ILIAS)

Affected views

2 Technical Information

We could remove a lot of PHP chat specific PHP and JS code as well as the icon files.

3 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
• Maintainer: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: Scharmer, Lukas [lscharmer] & Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

4 Funding

Removing the feature from the ILIAS code base might need funding. If you are interest in funding this request, please add your name and institution to this list.

• Databay AG

5 Discussion

Use the following discussion section to express your objections against this request or your consent to get rid of this feature.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 20 MAR 2023: We highly appreciate this suggestion and abandon emoticon support  in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat with ILIAS 9.

6 Implementation

PR: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/pull/5979

Administration of Emoticons has been completely removed. See Screenshots.

Accordingly, they are no longer available in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat.

There is a corresponding update step in which the images for the emoticons and the language variables are also removed.

Removed Testcases

The following testcases have been removed from Testrail or modified because the feature is no longer part of the ILIAS core.

• Deleted: C51133 : Chatnachricht mit Smiley/Symbol abschicken
• Deleted: C51133 : Chatnachricht mit Emoticon verschicken

Approval

Approved at 2023-06-09 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].