Support built-in emoji selections #438
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Over there you said
(emphasis mine) I disagree. Quite heavily. Emojis have gone far beyond what used to be “smileys” back in the day. That means there are way more use cases for them than there used to be, too. At the same time, it’s all Unicode. It’s text input. So any application that takes text input can generally take emoji input as well. I’d wager that the vast majority of applications that can take emojis does not have built-in support for them. On the desktop I’ve grown so accustomed to using emojis that I have the most commonly used ones in my compose file, and use https://github.com/biox/shmoji + dmenu to have access to the full list anywhere. On the phone they are still a royal PITA. So, in case that wasn’t obvious, I voted “Yes”. As to what an actual implementation / UI would look like, no idea yet. |
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I'd appreciate this because:
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The lack of emojis is the most annoying thing about this keyboard. The extra flow of switching to a different keyboard often means I'll switch keyboards for a couple days. It seems like a weird decision to force people into an alternative keyboard just to type an emoji. Emojis have such widespread usage that there is a system emoji picker for Windows, Mac, Gnome, and Chrome OS. Emojipedia has the full list of Emojis for Androidl Unicode.com has a list of all emojis, as well as a text description (which could be used for searching). In terms of implementation, I personally really like gboard's emoji keyboard. A search bar, little icons for categories, and a few other integrations. There's also other integrations, such as emoticons, gifs, stickers for people that use them. I also miss the feature where I can type a word, and autocomplete will give me the option to change the word I just typed into an emoji. It's practical, because there's _so many emojis, that usually I'd have to use the search bar anyway. Anyway, I really hope this feature is implemented. It's been a personal pain point for quite some time now. |
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I agree that Emoji input should be readily accessible from any keyboard. Whether "built-in" or through a different program ("Intent", in Android lingo) seems to be irrelevant, as long as the flow/UX works sufficiently well. As for the "urgency" of the matter, I agree that the current method of simply dropping into another keyboard is not sufficiently fluent and clumsy to the point where it becomes unfeasible. For people like me, who have the sidebar disabled, it is outright impossible. OTOH, most messaging apps provide an in-app Emoji picker, which kind of mitigates the problem to a certain point. Then again, there are apps without such a picker (which is conceptually the right thing to do), where entering as much as a single Emoji becomes a huge PITA. So yes, a solution is needed. I think a first would be to provide a Gesture for a call to |
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Actually, 8vim used to have emojis as part of the keyboard then i split it
into a seperate keyboard. Idea was to allow ppl to use keyboard which are
dedicated for emoji, kanji, gifs, sticker etc. I saw so many of such
keyboards that i assumed it will become norm.
My future predicting capabilities suck...
…On Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 4:07 PM alterNERDtive ***@***.***> wrote:
Yeah, I don’t think trying to integrate them into the “main” input circle
would work. So, like the numpad thing, it would definitely be a dedicated
panel.
Search would be great (actually I don’t think it’ll be feasible w/o search
unless you limit the thing to a very small subset), and I really like the
idea of suggestions while typing. Though actually (without my phone rn) I’m
not sure if 8Vim even has suggestions. Either it doesn’t or I have them
turned off ;)
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that would be the way to go. Can't force my choice when I know I am wrong.
…On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 8:04 AM Pedro Mangabeira ***@***.***> wrote:
We could have a compromise. leaving the choice of an external keyboard for
emoji and/or an emoji picker, leaving the choice to the user?
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Currently, emojis rely on switching keyboards.
In most cases this is not needed to switch keyboard has an emoji selections.
But this is sometimes not possible, forcing us to switch to that keyboard and back to 8vim manually.
Should 8Vim have a built-in emoji selection without switching the keyboard?
refs: #435
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