Skype - Get Hidden Emoticons

laying around with Skype recently drawing out my curiosity to discover more and more of its emoticons.

Visible Emoticons

At first, I think Skype's emoticons are limited only to 72 default emoticons. Who knows that Skype actually has more hidden in depth.

Shown above : 72 Skype default visible emoticons.

Emoticons List

Digging inside your Skype application, you can find 89 emoticons (according to my version). The path is :

1. Finder ▸ Applications ▸ Skype
2. Show Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents
3. Choose Contents ▸ Resources ▸ Emoticons ▸ Emoticons.SkypeEmoticonset
4. Show Contextual Menu again ▸ Show Package Contents
5. Now, you're inside

Customizing Shortcut

Search for Emoticons.plist at the bottom of the list (still inside the last pane). Open it with TextEdit and you will see a lot of "alien" words there. Look for Equivalents, match the name inside and give additional line with new shortcut inside, then you'll have new shortcut for that emoticon.

Too complicated, isn't it? Let's go to example. You want to customize shortcut for Smile emoticon, which is by default :)
The emoticon filename is emoticon-0100-smile.png. Search for it and you will find something like Equivalents nearby.

These will be the initial lines :

After adding new shortcut becomes :

Note that you will need administrator's authorization to do this.