KEmoticons, emoticons kcm

[Volker Krause]

On Saturday, 23 May 2020 02:49:57 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> I was looking through some Plasma code and I saw that we have some
> fairly old emoticons KCM using KF5Emoticons.
> 
> Now while I know why this exists, it feels like it's more of a thing
> of the past from when people wrote :) instead of 🙂. While keeping it
> around for the few apps that might still use it (ktp? kopete?) could
> make sense, I'm afraid it's probably making it confusing for the users
> who expect this to actually allow them to customise their 🙂 but
> won't.
> 
> Do you think it would make sense to deprecate the framework and remove the
> KCM?

Absolutely! 

There's some discussion on this topic in https://phabricator.kde.org/T11585 
already. While direct usage of KEmoticons in applications is rare, there is a 
"backdoor dependency" via a KCoreAddons plug-in it provides.

Regards,
Volker