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)

#X11 #emoji #keyboard

#qXmoji v0.7 released!

https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/releases/tag/v0.7

This brings several improvements, mainly in the build system, but the major change is support for localization, with translated Emoji names imported from #Unicode #CLDR. I added a German translation, see screenshot. Once again, I'd appreciate more translations, the process to translate is documented here:
https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/blob/master/TRANSLATE.md

Updated FreeBSD port:
https://people.freebsd.org/~zirias/patches/0001-x11-qxmoji-Add-new-port.patch

#X11 #emoji #keyboard #FreeBSD #Linux

#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

#X11 #emoji #keyboard

Got a vertical prototype working, the tooltips in the "normal" emoji tabs are translated 🥳

🍺o'clock, later ... 🍻

#qXmoji #X11 #emoji #keyboard

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" 🙄

#qXmoji #X11 #emoji #keyboard

Working on the next thing for #qXmoji: #l10n.

First step: Build a hash-table for localized emoji names from Unicode CLDR data.

#X11 #emoji #keyboard

Adding features in a module with clear boundaries is so much more fun!

I just added different modes for using #Qt's #moc to my new USES=qt in my #gmake framework ... Testing it with #qXmoji (my new #X11 #emoji #keyboard) in the mode that just includes moc-generated stuff, and it works like a charm. No more extra compilation steps for moc, this whole build log now looks nicely short (screenshot: build from entirely clean git checkout) 🥳

https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/commit/928bc8a1cc0fd1a54908bda13ba31042ed6b1471

#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 🥳

#X11 #emoji #keyboard #Linux #FreeBSD

Oh boy #Qt can get *nasty* if you need something "unusual" (like, initialize 4000 Labels all on startup 🎶🤫).

So, I can't fix performance of this, but I can "defer" it with a hacky hidden class like this.

It uses #Qtimer for a 1ms pause between every single emoji, which was the *only* way I found to have Qt still process other events 🤯 ... prefers the currently visible tab for initialization ... and "commits suicide" when done.

I'm proud and ashamed at the same time 🥴

It seems fighting #Qt for better #performance can be a lost cause 😞 ... after a LOT of refactoring (finally even generating QStringLiteral entries in my #emoji data tables), setting an emoji as text on nearly 4000 QLabel instances is still slow as hell -- but now, compiling the emoji data is horribly slow as well (QStringLiteral doing C++ template "magic" ...) 🙈

(And no, threading won't help here, Qt Widgets can't be used from worker threads ...)

At least I could speed up serializing/deserializing the emoji history. The new format is also surprisingly user-readable 😂