On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:08 AM Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
= System Wide Change: IBus Unicode Typing =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IBus_Unicode_Typing
Change owner(s):
* Takao Fujiwara <fujiwara [at] redhat [dot] com>
IBus core provides an Emoji dialog which users can type emoji
annotations and output the emoji character using IBus (E.g. Typing
"football" shows U+26BD). The proposal is the dialog also supports to
type Unicode names (E.g. Typing "copyright sign" shows U+00A9).
== Detailed Description ==
IBus core provides an Emoji dialog and it can be launched with
Ctrl-Shift-e shortcut key in non-GNOME desktop and `ibus emoji`
command is available for GNOME desktop [1]. Users can select an emoji
in emoji lists on the emoji dialog or type an emoji annotation in an
input entry on the emoji dialog and output the selected emoji using
IBus.
The proposal is that emoji dialog also supports to type Unicode names
in the input entry and output the selected Unicode character.
E.g. Typing "copyright sign" shows U+00A9
[1] because gnome-shell has its owned keyboard indicator instead of
/usr/libexec/ibus-ui-gtk3 and GTK itself also has the similar emoji
dialog and the emoji implementation is under the consideration in
GNOME.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
IBus core will include the dictionary of Unicode names
* Other developers:
N/A
* Release engineering:
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7255
* List of deliverables:
N/A
* Policies and guidelines:
N/A
* Trademark approval:
N/A
--
Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
With regards to [1], that was a very unfortunate regression[2] of a widely advertised[3] feature of F25 that was immediately broken in F26. :(
I don't really see the value of unicode entry when I can't easily type unicode characters on a standard US keyboard. I'm sure it will be useful to some, but restoring GNOME functionality for ibus-typing-booster would be a much more useful feature, so that unicode characters (including emojis) can be searched for using a standard US keyboard layout in a convenient interface.
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