Bug 151197

Summary: Remove EmojiControl
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: ⁨خالد حسني⁩ <khaled>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: heiko.tietze, khaled, rafael.palma.lima, vsfoote
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140265
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156427
Whiteboard: target:7.5.0 inReleaseNotes:7.5
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 100100    

Description ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 2022-09-27 09:29:15 UTC
As discussed in bug 144348, we probably should remove the emoji widget: it has been experimental for so long, and operating systems provide better maintained tools for selecting and inserting emojis. We also has the auto correct and the special characters dialog. That is already too much for such a low importance feature.
Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2022-09-27 13:26:13 UTC
Agree.
Comment 2 Rafael Lima 2022-09-27 14:27:38 UTC
+1 this widget causes too much trouble for very little gain.

In KDE I always use the "Emoji Selector" shipped with Plasma, which works great with LibreOffice.
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2022-09-27 15:27:33 UTC
+1
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2022-09-29 12:38:24 UTC
Presented it at the ESC and no objection to remove.
Comment 5 Commit Notification 2022-09-29 12:39:54 UTC
Khaled Hosny committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/5f1eb2a12b6e6ee646b5e9536822531ad0bd3259

tdf#151197: Remove EmojiControl

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 6 Commit Notification 2022-09-29 15:08:51 UTC
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/0103092bf2e25b0f1ad33b1855ea440dfa537f3d

Related tdf#151197: remove remnants of EmojiControl in svg parts of icon-themes

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 7 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-12-12 16:47:30 UTC
fix verified:

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ad085990b8073a122ac5222e5220f8f1d6826dcf
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Thank you both!