IBus Emoji Typing

Summary

The IBus core will provides the Emoji typing with the IBus XKB engines.

Owner

Name: Takao Fujiwara
Email: tfujiwar [at] redhat [dot] com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 25
Last updated: 2016-06-29
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

IBus has already provided Unicode hex codes tying with Ctrl-Shift-u and now we think the similar implementation for the Emoji typging. With IBus XKB engines, Emoji typing will be provided with the Emoji annotations following Ctrl-Shift-e.

Benefit to Fedora

Emoji typing is the popular script on SNS, E-mail, Chat.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- IBus core provide the dictionary of the Emoji typing.
- IBus XKB engines load the Emoji dictionary.

Other developers: N/A

Release engineering: N/A
- List of deliverables: N/A

Policies and guidelines: N/A

Trademark approval: N/A

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Users don't have to type Ctrl-Shift-e

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

Log into non-GONME desktop.
Run "ibus-setup" utility and enable any IBus XKB engines.
Open any IBus clients, e.g. firefox
Type Ctrl-Shift-u-smiley

Show the smiley Emojis.

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change) This time provides the English words.

Dependencies

nodejs-emojione

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Drop the feature in Fedora 25 and postpone it to Fedora 26
Contingency deadline: Probably Fedora 25 Alpha freeze
Blocks release? No
Blocks product? No

Documentation