Dino: emoji autocompletion

[tintou]

It would be nice to be able to add an emoji by their namecode with colons:
: tada : becomes :tada: for instance

[muchweb]

Gnome already does this. Open context menu in any text input and select the 'Insert Emoji'.

Or install any of these programs: https://askubuntu.com/a/1045916

[Peque]

@muchweb I would say that does not resolve this issue. In my opinion it is much nicer to be able to use the :emoji_namecode: notation. :blush:

Other messaging software: Telegram-desktop, Riot, Slack... and web services: GitHub, Gitlab... use it too.

[muchweb]

Services that you have mentioned use plain text colon-style emoji codes that are rendered as images.

Dino makes use of Unicode emoji that are rendered with font of user's choice, which in my opinion is a better approach to this.

Maybe we can use 'rumoji' mapping to convert colon-style emojis into Unicode before message is sent to server.

[Peque]

@muchweb I agree that user's choice is a better approach. However, I can copy text from Telegram-desktop to GNOME Terminal and see the Emojis correctly displayed, so I am guessing it uses real Unicode emoji?

Also, those tools they do not only replace colon-style emojis into unicode before message is sent. They let you autocomplete with TAB and open a "pop-up" with suggested/recent emojis. Replacement occurs at that very same time, not like here in GitHub. That is part of the feature, and what I would consider most important (I would not care that much if emojis were rendered with font of user's choice or another).

Update

It seems you can copy from Gitlab to GNOME Terminal too and see the emoji correctly displayed?

[alyssarosenzweig]

A little late to the party, but I just implemented this as a Friday night "let's learn Vala" project (see linked MR) :)