Notes Sametime Emojis

Since Sametime doesn't have full support for UTF-8 emojis and only ships with a very "basic" emoticon palette, I decided to create one myself.

Currently these emoji sets are supported:

• Apple
• Google
• Twitter
• Facebook

If you miss your favourite set, feel free to submit a pull request and add the ones you like.

Installation

To download the emoji palette, just head to the releases section and download the set you want to use.

Installation is pretty straight forward. Just follow these steps:

1. Extract the archive you've downloaded somewhere where you can find it again. In it, you'll find more ZIPs. I've split up the whole set into multiple smaller palettes grouped by category to make it more useable inside Notes since there are a lot of single images (one for each emoji) and Notes apperently can't handle that...
2. Open IBM Notes and head to File → Preferences.
3. Go to the section Sametime → Emoticon Palette.
4. Create a new palette for each ZIP inside the archive you've downloaded, click Import and select the corresponding ZIP file.
5. Enjoy! 🎉

Build it yourself

If you want to have the emojis in a specific size (currently you can download only a 16px and 32px variant) you can build the palettes yourself. All you need is a standard Node.JS environment. Just clone the repository, edit the main.js file and modify targetConfiguration.targets to your likings.

// Target Configuration.
const targetConfiguration = {
  folder: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
  targets: [
    // Specify the targets to build here!
  ],
}

Each target object contains of the following two values. You can adjust the size however you like (keep in mind that the original images are 32x32 in size, so choosing something bigger than that worsens the quality of the resulting images).

{
  set: 'apple|google|twitter|facebook',
  size: 32,
}

To build all targets, just run the following command:

$ npm run-script build

Contribute

If you haven't noticed already, the code is far from perfect and everything but optimized. Since this was just a quick project I haven't put too much attention to that. If you'd like to help with this, feel free to submit a pull request.

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Copyright (C) Nils Weber // Licensed under MIT