emoji-selector-for-gnome
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maoschanz
Possible to directly input emoji into currently selected text field?
Rather than having to resort to copy-paste, are there any plans on implementing support for the emoji selector acting as an input method instead?
This is a quite difficult issue, i know that inserting directly emojis into the active text field would be better but it's very complicated and i've no idea how to do.
An example of input method could have been the OSK but it looks like they're struggling with performance issues
It would be nice indeed :slightly_smiling_face:
Maybe sending a shift+insert to trigger a paste? This behaviour should be optional though, I guess.
yes, and it leaks, so i'll look at it after the 3.30 release
The 3.30 release has already came out. (e.g. my gnome-shell version is 3.30.1) Are there some news? Have you already "looked at it"? Has it became possible to type text into the focused input from a gnome extension? It'd be really cool if this feature will be implemented some time...
Potential solution in this repo - https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie/blob/develop/src/common/InputManipulator.js It simulates a CTRL-V keypress to insert the clipboard text.
I think a better solution would be to avoid using the clipboard entirely. A solution (potentially using the same lib) could be to send the unicode characters as <Ctrl> <Shift> u followed by the unicode codepoint and a space, as described here.
Any progress on that front? Would you be interested in a pull request? @maoschanz
+1
This extension has implemented inserting text into selected text field, I don't know about gnome extensions that much, but this may help: https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-pano
