[Feature Request(s)] Modern Features Much Required

[TheYellowArchitect]

Discord, Signal, Slack and other applications currently dominate the digital messaging space. But Tox already has most things needed, and a few more could make it rocket. This is pretty much feedback to what I noticed from my brief usage:

1. No Custom Emojis or Stickers
   This helped discord a lot, and it personalized each chat. Nowadays, some custom emojis fill a unique expression not possible by text (e.g. Pogchamp)
   I know this is very hard to implement, but if you were to go all-in, accepting a custom emoji permanently, like you do a fileshare, would be great, so it stays between the chat of the users (just use that friend's ID or that group's ID + that emoji as enum, in order to encode/dencode a custom emoji)

2. Screen Share
   First, it should be easier to find (hidden in settings lol, didnt even have camera so i skipped that entire section)
   I haven't used screen sharing, but cross-client is required imo. Windows to Linux, or either Windows and Linux to Android (aTox)
   Even Element, which shills itself as privacy-focused, cannot do cross-client screen share.

3. Media Preview
   In the chat, the mp4 file should be playable within the chat window, instead of playing it with a custom player. Ofc, optional, but it helps.
   Related to this is images. They shouldnt show that small by default, enclosed within a green box, as if they are zip files lol
   You shouldnt have to click on them, or at least they should be far bigger, like a big thumbnail.

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I wrote the above because I already love Tox and want to see it better - but utterly lack the skills to improve it as a coder.
It can become the peak chat messaging platform, a universal chat client. Because other platforms can add a billion features, but they will never have privacy, and so, the userbase who use chat clients (every1 with internet) will be split between the "feature-full" platforms, and the privacy-friendly ones (Tox, Element, IRC, XMPP etc etc)

But Tox can really dominate all, because it has the most important feature of all, which other platforms cannot simply add. Hence, I thank you, developers of Tox whoever you are, and I hope you will add these QoL features to Tox, bringing Tox even to normies (500+ issues is scary but only ~10 are really needed to migrate every1 from Element/XMPP/IRC)

[vertigo220]

Just want to add that my friend and I just tried this out and neither of us thought it had screen sharing. So definitely agree that feature needs to be more prominent.