Currently trying to understand the IBus source code and track things down so that I can work out how to ditch all of the skin tone emojis from the Ctrl+Shift+E input list.
Yellow skin is good enough for the main face emojis. I don't need skin tone on all the rest of them!
Hmmm, the right-click "Insert Emoji" option _might_ be a workable alternative. *If* I could launch it from Ctrl+Shift+E. It's a bit bigger and doesn't have the immediacy for single matches (like "grim" for 😬). But at least it collapses all the skin colours.
But being Gnome, I can't find a configuration option for it yet 😕
Maybe I should just give up and add a few more shortcuts to my XCompose file. I use that for most of the basics like :D ⇒ 😄 and :\ ⇒ 😕 (plus => ⇒ ⇒)
Hmmmmm… there is a EMOJI_VARIANT_LIST in IBus's Emojier that has the skin tones in (as well as ZWJ). This block looks relevant, but I'll need to read it over the weekend to work out quite what it's doing.
"Variants are not shown by default" feels helpful. But the implication that it's going to show them is less so (and what I want to "fix")
I think I've got a patch for my emoji skin tone annoyance.
Good: I can put it in Open Build Service and the docs say that there's a `<add>` element that does all of the spec editing for me! (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Adding_patch_files_in_linked_packages)
Bad: You use it and it puts in a `%patchN` line and the build errors out with `%patchN is obsolete, use %patch N (or %patch -P N)` 😐
Hey, look! Someone reported a bug about this!
*checks notes*
It was me. Over 18 months ago 😐
Good: My fix makes a smaller `ibus-emoji-dict` package.
Bad: It still appears to include the skin tones 😐 Not a clue what it dropped!
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