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Sticker panel

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Press Ctrl-T in the composer to open the sticker panel. The panel lists your Recent and Favorites stickers followed by every installed sticker set, and sends the selected sticker as a native Telegram sticker — no re-upload, and your draft text stays untouched.

In the sticker panel	Action
hjkl or arrow keys	Move in the sticker grid
PageUp/PageDown, Home/End	Move through the stickers
Tab / Shift-Tab	Next / previous section
Mouse click	Select a section or sticker; click the selected sticker again to send
Enter or Space	Send the selected sticker
Ctrl-R	Revalidate Recent, Favorites and the set list; retry a failed set
Esc or q	Close and return to the composer

The left sidebar lists the sections: Recent, Favorites and one row per installed set. The panel opens instantly from the local cache — already available offline for browsing — and revalidates with Telegram in the background, showing a subtle refreshing indication until the answer arrives. Unchanged sections cost no network payload: Telegram's hash mechanism reports them as not modified. Set contents load lazily when a section is first opened, with the same cached-then-revalidated behavior. A failed revalidation keeps the cached data and shows the error in the footer; Ctrl-R forces another pass.

Grid cells render each sticker's static raster thumbnail with the same inline image pipeline as message previews; cells whose thumbnail has not downloaded yet show the sticker's emoji. Animated TGS/WebM stickers use their static thumbnail, which is expected. With no cache and lists still loading, the panel shows a loading notice; empty sections say so. Thumbnails download lazily, at most four transfers in flight, and persist in the media cache per document.

Sending honors the current reply: the sticker attaches the reply target and clears the reply state, exactly like sending the draft, but the draft text is preserved. An optimistic pending message appears immediately and is replaced when Telegram confirms; a failed send marks only that message. Sticker file references expire after some days, so when Telegram reports an expired one, Termgram refreshes the sticker's set once and retries the send automatically. Send restrictions and slow mode are enforced like for text.

The entry action is stickers in the compose context (default Ctrl-T). Panel keys use the stickers context with the actions open, cancel, refresh, up, down, left, right, page_up, page_down, home, end, sticker_set_next and sticker_set_previous.

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