If there was room for it, a button with a smiley face or similar would be much more findable than our current globe icon.
Making it separate from keyboard layouts isn't the only way of doing that, though. Whenever you have exactly two keyboards and one of them is Emoji, iOS labels the button as “😃”/“ABC” instead of the usual globe icon. Windows Phone, on the other hand, demonstrates the solution Matthew is proposing. An emoji button is part of every keyboard layout in its standard mode, next to the layout switcher button. (The layout switcher button is therefore present less often, since most people use just one layout.) In Web address and e-mail address modes, the same space is taken up by the .com/etc domain-completion button. I reported bug 1539554 about the excessive scrolling. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-keyboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1520893 Title: Emoji should not be a separate keyboard Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The primary use of the keyboard switcher is switching languages. But Emoji are used in every language. They are like symbols, and you don't type symbols by switching to a different keyboard. Rather there is a separate button on the keyboard for switching to symbol entering mode. Having emoji on a separate keyboard means a) monolingual people still need to figure out how to use the keyboard switcher and b) bilingual people have to deal with three keyboards rather than a simple toggle switch (see Bug #1520889). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1520893/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
