Is it possible to use system emojis instead of discord's ones ?

[SpidFightFR]

Hello guys, everything's in the title.

On Linux you can choose between many emoji themes, and i personally opted for the Apple ones, so is there a possibility to use this emoji theme (system theme) for discord emojis ?

Thanks for your help !

[SpacingBat3]

That would require some job, mainly reverse what is done by their Twemoji script. But surely that is possible to be done, although instead of implementing it I think I will rather work on the custom extensions.

[SpacingBat3]

@SpidFightFR It's actually a BetterDiscord theme and could work with WebCord if I would add a support for patching CSP by CSS themes... which is something I eventually plan to implement.

[SpidFightFR]

@SpacingBat3 hey, thanks for your reply, i tried to install the theme, but i got 2 main issues with it:

1 - Webcord doesn't launch with it, webcord gets soft-locked while loading discord.
2 - It doesn't actually use system's emojis, it gets other emoji themes from an external website. So it doesn't solve the issue, it just moves the problem.

Ideally what could be cool is to rely on System emojis, windows emojis for instance or custom emoji themes on Linux; with an option in the settings to decide if we should use discord's emojis or system theme.

In the meantime, if you need help for testing the implementation you're talking about, don't hesitate to ask me !

[SpacingBat3]

In the meantime, if you need help for testing the implementation you're talking about, don't hesitate to ask me!

I think I'll just push it to the master at let you know here when I've done this. I will also publish a modified version of this theme on this thread that will include a correct CSP metadata.

As of the current state, merging CSP was done in WebCord by implementing a specific CSP class that contains methods to build CSP from JavaScript object, convert that to string and merge multiple classes using a static method. This makes it much easier to implement once I actually think of way to efficiently parse theme metadata and use that before themes are injected to build a whole CSP header that will be present in each request made while loading main window's webContents.

[SpacingBat3]

Ideally what could be cool is to rely on System emojis, windows emojis for instance or custom emoji themes on Linux; with an option in the settings to decide if we should use discord's emojis or system theme.

That would probably require some JavaScript injection/preloading and it might be a great idea to implement extensions instead implementing this feature directly. What do you think of that?

[SpidFightFR]

if it works, it's good enough !