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Re: "Emoji support in Lagrange"
Here's another option: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote. I also agree this is not a resposibility of the app. XFCE (or GTK3? I'm not sure) has a native emoji picker in some apps, like the address bar in Thunar: just right click and "Insert emoji". Not sure how to invoke that same pop-up from another app though.
May 29 · 7 months ago
🚀 stack · 2024-05-29 at 17:32:
@skyjake, re "I wouldn't go so far as to say they violate the spirit of Gemini"...If bold text was rejected as unnecessary and distracting, I'd say multicolored, profoundly ugly emojis are much more so!
I was even going to suggest using a quiet :) if you really must, and I hope it is not replaced by an uglified Walmart logo.
❄ freezr [OP] · 2024-05-30 at 02:43:
@skyjake and the other friends, you convinced me... 👍
I'm gonna create and share an emoji page so anyone can use it as described by Skyjake! 😉
@Stack I am not against emoji, these simbols help to have a "conversion" informal... as you would with friends! 🤙
🚀 stack · 2024-05-30 at 02:59:
To be fair, emojis work pretty well in menus and flair here, but yeah, I really don't like them mixed into text. Maybe it looks friendly or informal to you, but yuck. I don't know why they make them so aesthetically awful.
🛰️ lufte · 2024-05-30 at 16:12:
About the aesthetic part, one is always free of choosing the font used to display emojis. In my system there seems to be a mix now of multiple fonts being used, as I see some being rendered with a monochromatic font that respects the text color and others with full hi-def colorful drawings.
☕️ tenno-seremel · 2024-05-31 at 07:03:
There is Noto Emoji (not Noto Color Emoji!), which has monochrome emoji. Pretty useful if you prefer them a bit more plain.
Emoji support in Lagrange — @skyjake I knew we already talked about this but Emoji support on Lagrange, on the side panel for instance, it would make Lagrange P E R F E C T ! 🏆 On Android emoji are naturally integrated, and I am pretty sure also on MacOS, on Linux desktop I have to go on Firefox, copy the emoji ,and paste into lagrange… 😩 Perhaps you may add it to your to-do list at the very bottom… 🥺