This Gnome shell extension provides a simple popup menu with some emojis in it ; Clicking on an emoji copies it to your clipboard.
- new way to display emojis, on a grid (which is far better)
- parametrable width for the grid
- new and better icon
- translations (english, french and german)
- new stylesheet
- recently used emojis are displayed above (or under) categories
- bug fixes
- less ugly code
- a nice interface for settings
The better option is to install it from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/
How to manually install the extension ?
Download files and put them in an "[email protected]" folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
You may need to restart the gnome shell environnment ("logout and login again", or alt+f2 + r + enter).
The screenshot looks great but it's ugly on my computer !
It will be less ugly if you have the « Twitter Color Emoji » font, or the « EmojiOne Color » font installed on your system. These fonts are on github, be careful with EmojiOne Color, the recommended way to install it may fuck your system.
The very popular extension "Dash to Panel" seems to cause some problems with my extension. You need to set a number of emojis per line around 25 to solve the issue.
The "recently used" category is reset every time i login, is this normal ?
This behavior happens with the version on extensions.gnome.org but not with the version on github.
Can you translate the extension in [some language] ?
The extension is currently available in english, french and german. I only know french and english, so if you need a specific language, please contribute : you just have to be inspired by the existing .po files !
There is no racialized smileys / LGBT peoples / gender-specific activities / "numbers in square" symbols :'(
I'm sorry about that, but most fonts have a bad technical support for these caracters, which didn't display well (at least on my computer), so i prefered doing without these emojis.