Weekend came... and went
Phew! I thought I could find some time to hack this weekend. Wedding shopping meant that the days came and went like a storm and now it'll be Monday in another 25 minutes now. I think I'll have more time on weekdays rather than weekends now ;)
We're probably going to give animated smileys a shot for ayttm soon. I tinkered around with gifs on gtk for a while on Friday and was able to at least load them. They're still not smooth enough though; WIP. Moreover, we don't really have animated smileys yet.
I'll probably move image loading to a completely different layer so that we can abstract loading of smiley files in various formats (gif, jpg, png, xpm, etc.). Tall plans; hopefully I'll be able to finish something before I go on a longish break in December/January.