Emoji Picker is an emoji browsing tool which uses the emoji matching code from ibus-typing-booster.
ibus-typing-booster contains an “emoji-picker” tool which can be used independently from ibus-typing-booster, i.e. even when ibus-typing-booster is not running.
This is free and open source software.
Website: mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Mike Fabian
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Emoji Picker is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Features of ibus-typing-booster include:
- Context sensitive completions.
- Learns from user input.
- Can be trained by supplying files containing typical user input.
- If available, hunspell and hunspell dictionaries will also be used to provide not only completion but also spellchecking suggestions (But ibus-typing-booster works also without hunspell by learning only from user input).
- Can be used with any keyboard layout.
- Almost all input methods supplied by libm17n are supported (including the inscript2 input methods).
- Several input methods and languages can be used at the same time without switching.
- Predicts Unicode symbols and emoji as well.
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