🚦🚥 ... ok it works 🌋
A super-simple #emoji keyboard for #x11.
Well, I *did* have to fiddle with the keymap.
And I had to add delays 🤯👹 (otherwise there are races between keymap changes and keyboard events).
And I had to misuse the #Xtest extension, cause applications ignore "synthetic" events. 🫥😣
But hey, it works 🕺
Now needs some basic, uhm, "features" (like recently used, like search by name).
Fixed build with #Qt6 now (and defaulting to that, but #Qt5 still supported).
I also added a README.md explaining the uglyness of what it does with #X11 / #xcb. But again, hey, it works 🙈🍄🐸🦉 (lots of emojis for no purpose, sorry 😂)
The looks with completely unconfigured #Qt6 tell me it needs yet another feature: Configurable scale factor. These emojis are just TOO small 🧌
First "features" added ...
* Can now select 5 "scale factors" for the size of the emojis, "Tiny" being the same size as default window text (which is normally indeed tiny for emojis)
* Auto-stores these settings as well as the window dimensions (not position!)
#qXmoji v0.1 and v0.2 released 😎
Functionally the same (just clickable emojis in tabbed groups, display size and wait-time for restoring the X11 keyboard map configurable), but v0.2 has correct README info and build-fixes, so Qt tools are found without fiddling with make variables 🙈 so, use v0.2 😎
🥳 #qXmoji v0.3 released 🍻🍕
Now there are the "basic" features you'd expect from an emoji keyboard:
✅ Search as you type
✅ Recently used
Found a small bug, #xcb requests were synchronously checked, but this only works when calling the _checked() flavor of them ... 🙈
Fixed in #qXmoji v0.4
Also added a clear button to the search field, this seems somewhat useful 😉
Thinking about what to include in #qxmoji v0.5. Many questions in mind...
I'll definitely "outscope" #l10n. Would be nice, but would also mean to import localized emoji names somehow (and, where to find them? 🤔)
For now:
🔹Unify persisting settings. history and window size are persisted on exit, wait time and display scale on every change. Not sure which one is the "better" approach...
🔹Should it be "single instance"? Should it offer an option for a "tray icon"?
🔹Add an "About dialog". Cause that's what you always do. 🙈
🔹Maybe find a way to speed up initial creation of the Emoji buttons?
🔹Anything else ...❓
Please comment if you have thoughts to share 🙃
#qXmoji v0.5 released!
https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/releases/tag/v0.5
This brings a *few* of the ideas I had:
🔹Add a "single instance" mode (configurable)
🔹Add a "tray icon" (configurable behavior)
🔹Add an "About" dialog
🔹Enforce using Qt's "xcb" platform
🔹Fix detaching on startup, add a flag (-d) to prevent it
Pretty usable as it is I hope ... although one could of course improve a lot (but have you heard of the 80-20-rule?) 🫣
Screenshot from #KDE this time, no particular reason, I'm still running #fvwm here 😎
#qXmoji v0.6 released!
https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/releases/tag/v0.6
This brings a *lot* of improvements and fixes, the most relevant being immediate persistence of settings and watching the settings file for external changes. To make this feasible also for restoring the history, a lot of work went into generating static emoji data that can be used efficiently (e.g. containing a hash table to find an emoji quickly).
BTW, this even works on #NFS, so if you have your home shared and you're running qXmoji on two machines as the same user, the history will auto-update in both instances 🥳
Working on the next thing for #qXmoji: #l10n.
First step: Build a hash-table for localized emoji names from Unicode CLDR data.
Use the hashtable to map translations to emojis and auto-generate #Qt #Linguist translation files containing both texts -> done.
I just *had* to check: No, there isn't a catchy german translation for "facepalming" 🙄
Got a vertical prototype working, the tooltips in the "normal" emoji tabs are translated 🥳
🍺o'clock, later ... 🍻
#qXmoji is now completely translatable, and fully localized for 🇩🇪.
So, here comes a request for contributions 😁 (pretty please 🙃):
More languages would be nice! Therefore I documented the process to add them here:
https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/blob/master/TRANSLATE.md
If there are no takers, I might be seduced to add #French myself.
TBH, this is kind of a threat to all french-speaking ppl. It's the only language I ever learned besides German and English, and school is a *very* long time ago. It will probably end up somewhat similar to your typical chinese user's manual 😂
Ok, I couldn't resist any more. Here's #French #qXmoji. Or, something like that ...? 🙈
Dear native-speakers, if I messed up TOO badly, help me out and send patches / pull requests 🤣🍻
(edit: ah great, I directly spot the first typo in this screenshot ... gonna fix immediately. Still, the hardest thing is to express technical things in french, I guess that counts as "domain specific language" and I really have NO idea how to do it)
Felix Palmen 📯
