Bug 470134

Summary: Emoji Selector could be useful for selecting latex symbols
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Aleksey Kladov <aleksey.kladov>
Component: Emoji SelectorAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aleksey Kladov 2023-05-22 16:11:59 UTC 
In addition to emojies, I often want to copy-paste math symbols (\cap, \cup, \infty, etc). Emoji Selector would be a perfect UI for me to do that. To not clutter the emoji list itself, latex symbols can be suggested only when the query string starts with `\`. 

I think I can use `kcharselect` for a similar purpose, but this solution has the following shortcomings: 

- i'd need separate shortcuts for "launch emojier" and "launch kcharselect", although I think about both as "I want some unicode symbol"
- kcharselect UI is clunky
- kcharselect doesn't actually support latex aliases


I guess this wish can be split into two: 

- extend emojier into general "pick unicode symbols by names" functionality
- add latex aliases for math symbols
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-05-22 20:49:36 UTC 
It's an interesting idea, but I think you can see from its name that the Emoji Selector really is intended just to be for selecting emojis. The request is quire far out of scope, I'm afraid.