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tom-james-watson / Emote

Emoji Picker for Linux written in GTK3
https://snapcraft.io/emote
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feature request: Symbols #138

Open nightgolfer opened 10 months ago

nightgolfer commented 10 months ago

SYMBOLS: I find it extremely convenient to have quick access to both emoji and special symbols via the same helper app; both are "characters" that don't have dedicated keyboard buttons, both live in text areas/boxes/documents. In combination with Favorites, Symbols give quick access to symbols that I use often, and I don't need to search for them. A few examples of Symbols added to Favorites on my Mac: ° ™ © ←→.

There are a lot of Unicode characters. An idea could be to add a Symbols category button at the end of the emoji categories list, and populate it with a small subset of Unicode characters. In Settings, there could be an option for "Manage Unicode Sets", which opens a modal with a checkbox for each Unicode set/group. Adding a new set adds those characters to the Symbols category.

tom-james-watson commented 10 months ago

This has been suggested a couple of times before - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/issues/80 and https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/issues/70.

I think maybe having a small subset is not a bad idea, honestly. This isn't something that is realistically going to happen soon, though. I'm not really actively developing the app at the moment.