1452036 - Emoji selector in context menu

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement, P5)

Description

[rugk]

Chrome seems to introduce an Emoji selector you can open with right-click on any web page in an input field.[1] I think such a thing could be useful for Firefox, too.

If you currently want to accomplish such a thing, you either have to use OS systems for that (if they are available) or use add-ons such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/emoji-cheatsheet/.
However, unfortunately, these add-ons are kinda outdated and e.g. do not ship the latest Emoji, and use custom images for the Emojis instead of Firefox built-in support for Unicode emojis.

Considering Firefox already has EmojiOne built-in it can display all Emojis, so this would be a nice addition.

I could also imagine this as a testpilot add-on, if you think that would be better than direct integration into Firefox.

[1] https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/981955051194220545/photo/1

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to rugk from comment #0)
> Considering Firefox already has EmojiOne built-in it can display all Emojis,
> so this would be a nice addition.

Since bug 1358240 we now use Twemoji instead of EmojiOne.


John, is this something we can implement using TestPilot?

Comment 2

[John Gruen [:jgruen]]

I don't think this is Test Pilot-y. It's probably just something we should do. Looks like they're just adding a context menu option that points to the system emoji picker.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Jim, do you know if it's possible on Windows 10 to open the on-screen keyboard to a specific view (such as the emoji view)?

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #3)
> Jim, do you know if it's possible on Windows 10 to open the on-screen
> keyboard to a specific view (such as the emoji view)?

Questionable. We currently bring this up by launching a 3rd party app - 

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/2aa42f2cab4a110edf21dd7281ac23a1ea8901f9/widget/windows/WinIMEHandler.cpp#993

If there's a command line to this that selects keybaord, we could use it. Not finding much on the web though.

Comment 5

[rugk]

BTW for everyone following this issue and looking for a solution: In the time being I've made my own Firefox add-on for this (and other Emoji-related) task(s): ✨ Awesome Emoji Picker ✨

Comment 6

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Jim, do you know if it's possible on Windows 10 to open the on-screen keyboard to a specific view (such as the emoji view)?

Per the docs CoreInputView::TryShow receives CoreInputViewKind::Emoji to open the emoji panel.