1844959 - support GTK Emoji Chooser

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

GTK supports a native Emoji Chooser, which should already work with GTK 3 used by Firefox (on Linux) and is activated by pressing Ctrl-. or Ctrl-; .

Expected results:

Given that Emojis are used quite often when entering text on websites, it would be nice if Firefox could enable support for that.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me) (PTO, back on Jul 7)]

I guess it would be similar to GtkFileDialog implementation:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/gtk/nsFilePicker.cpp

It's implemented by GtkEmojiChooser widget.

Comment 3

[David Flanagan]

On Firefox Nightly, currently 129.0a1 (2024-07-02) (64-bit), pressing control+. for the GTK emoji picker renders Firefox unusable.

It doesn't crash, but everything grinds to a complete halt until killed.