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Julow / Unexpected-Keyboard

A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers.
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Decluttering emoji with separate skin tone codepoints #806

Open 64-Tesseract opened 4 days ago

64-Tesseract commented 4 days ago

Due to the sheer number of emoji skin tones (and their combinations with some emojis), it's hard to find a simple emoji like 👍.

You often see in keyboards an option to hide skin tones besides the one you set manually, which makes it very easy to find emojis. If you absolutely have to input specifically a medium-brown ear with hearing aid emoji, they allow you to hold the emoji to open a sub-menu with all its skin tones, but this wouldn't really fit in with the rest of the keyboard.

Instead, my suggestion is to have separate keys for skin tone modifier codepoints (which are technically separate characters but are rendered as a combined single emoji). In my opinion this would suit the "programmer keyboard" vibe well.
I think this could also be done for genderable emojis, but as they have a lot less combinations, clutter is less of an issue.

GitAlasGo commented 1 day ago

Is there a way to change the emoji layout using a custom layout?

Spike-from-NH commented 4 hours ago

If you have an emoji of interest, you can copypaste it between double quotes to make it appear on the main keyboard. I have ✔, ✖, and ♪ as swipes. There is no custom layout that governs the emoji layout.