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deltachat / deltachat-core

Delta.Chat C-Library with e2e chat-over-email functionality & Python bindings
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Stickers #3

Closed r10s closed 6 years ago

r10s commented 7 years ago

Well, not really needed by me but by some teenager I know.

We should implement a sticker system similar to telegram, of course without a central server as the rest of LibreChat.

Sticker File Format: If we expect stickers to be squares, we can use simple image files (png, jpg) with several stickers beside or below each other - the height resp. the width defines the size of the squares then, the other side divided by the size the number of available stickers. More complicated sticker information must be save somewhere else, however, they're not needed urgently.

If we use a sticker system without a central sever, we could implement a functionality to download the complete sticker set from a friend - on request (pull) or if we get the first sticker of a set, all stickers are send silently in the mail (push). Not sure, what to use at the moment. This system would also make censoring stickers as impossible as the mail itself.

@ Artists: Even if the sticker system is not ready, we would be glad for stickers that can be used by LibreChat.

kskarthik commented 7 years ago

This can be considered as low priority as we have have some important features like e2e encryption, mails as replies instead of multiple mails per chat etc...

r10s commented 7 years ago

This can be considered as low priority [...]

Not if you ask my daughter ;-)

kskarthik commented 7 years ago

Hahah ;-)

luisfsr commented 7 years ago

Hahaha... funny, but true. I think it is something that could be very appealing for young users. Indeed, I believe the success of any app relies on young users adopting the use of it. Being open source perhaps could offer some liberties to users which is not given by other messengers. Perhaps developing some add-on that offers the possibility to users create their own stickers could be something appealing to deltachat. Would it be possible?

r10s commented 7 years ago

@luisfsr: Yes, of course, this would be possible. And it's true, with an open source program without centralized servers you have definitely more freedom on the content.

r10s commented 6 years ago

Maybe it would be sufficiet to support the keyboards that try to send an image in someway (I've seen this on Apple iOS and on a Moto G test device, not sure which API this is.

Edit: For Android this is Image Keyboard.

r10s commented 6 years ago

Moved to the Android part, at least for now this is no core issue.