How can I get pidgin to replace animations/graphics with their alt text?

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Mar 15, 20262023 views

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I have a few contacts who use annoying text-to-animation plugins in their clients, that do things like turn the word "hi" into an animation of Kermit the Frog waving at me, or other equally annoying non-sense. This is even more annoying when it does the conversion mid-word, like turning "This" into…

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It is impossible to disable all the "smiles" with alt text yet. Ticket has been opened quite some time ago for that problem. However, it is possible to disable custom smiles -> -> -> ->

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How can I get pidgin to replace animations/graphics with their alt text?

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