Animated GIFs in emoticon sets.

Trying to create an animated emoticon set with big, animated, 3D characters. However, am finding that for some reason, in Gajim the display time for the FIRST frame is used for all subsequent frames, even though the frames were created with different display times. The only solution seems to be to set all frame display times to the smallest display time required and then inserting duplicate copies of a given frame to pad out that frame to the desired display time. This results in relatively HUGE files for some of the animated emoticons. The original GIFs with the each frame having it's own defined display time works fine in browsers.

In conjunction with this, Gajim has no current support and no prospective support for Animated PNGs?