If you open the special character group button, it is displaying 8 columns of characters which is to many in my view. I would say 4 or 5 characters per row would be sufficient.
With our current defined default of 12 "favorites", lets cut back to just 6 and start with the two rows rather than 3 we'd get at 4 or 5 columns.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > With our current defined default of 12 "favorites", lets cut back to just 6 > and start with the two rows rather than 3 we'd get at 4 or 5 columns. Related, could the column count for the recently used be fixed to match the favorites and fix the button size? The buttons now are not fixed width and expand to fill the row--looks weird with just one of two had been used.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2) ... > Related, could the column count for the recently used be fixed to match the > favorites and fix the button size? The buttons now are not fixed width and > expand to fill the row--looks weird with just one of two had been used. Bug 112261 - Fixed width for recent characters
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This is correct now, both the Favorites and the Recent characters are in the same 6 x 2 grid.