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Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#31832 closed task (blessed) (fixed)

Add an Emoji page to the Codex

Reported by: pento's profile pento Owned by: pento's profile pento
Milestone: 4.2 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.2
Component: Posts, Post Types Keywords:
Focuses: ui, docs, administration Cc:

Description

The shortcuts to open the emoji keyboard on desktop are fairly obscure if you don't know what they are. Adding a help tab for that would be handy.

Windows: http://www.emojibase.com/emojis-on-windows
OS X: http://blog.getemoji.com/emoji-keyboard-mac
Linux: LOL (Gnome and KDE don't have emoji keyboards)

Android/iOS: keyboards are first class UI, I don't think there are any docs needed.

It might be nice to have a pointer at the Help menu to let folks know they can find the keyboard shortcut there.

Attachments (1)

31832.patch (2.6 KB) - added by siobhan 10 years ago.
emoji help

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Change History (15)

#1 @pento
10 years ago

  • Owner set to pento
  • Status changed from new to assigned

#2 @siobhan
10 years ago

It would be helpful and consistent to have the keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard shortcuts popup (https://cloudup.com/crVbmR7mU-F)

And then a fuller explanation in the help tab.

@siobhan
10 years ago

emoji help

#3 @siobhan
10 years ago

Added the following:

Admin Help:

Emoji bring your content alive with smilies and icons. On your mobile device you can access emoji straight from your keyboard, but on desktop you need to take a few extra steps.
Mac OSX - use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Cmd+Space to bring up the emoji panel.
Linux - refer to the documentation for your distribution.
Windows - access the touch keyboard.
Please refer to the Codex to learn more about emoji.

Tiny MCE Help icon (list of keyboard shortcuts):

To access the emoji panel:
Windows Open the touch keyboard (learn more)
Mac OSX Cmd+Ctrl+Space

I didn't add linux shortcut to the TinyMCE Help because I couldn't find one.

#4 @siobhan
10 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed

#5 @helen
10 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added; has-patch removed

As much as I enjoy using emoji, I'm not sure that teaching about their input in a place people don't seem to look much is our priority. Emoji support is, as semi-jokingly put, the public-facing side of better Unicode support, but there is more to that support than smileys. We aren't trying to teach people about, say, the keyboard shortcut to access touchpad handwriting recognition for Chinese, which even I use (and my Chinese writing is terrible).

A plugin to enable autocomplete+tokenized replacements could be a fun thing, can't remember if @pento's plugin does that already. Happy to help implement it there once we get into RC if you want.

#6 @helen
10 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed

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10 years ago

#8 @siobhan
10 years ago

Assuming emoji support was added because 80% of users will want it, and since it's important enough to be mentioned as a headline feature, it seems odd not to have some sort of guidance on how to use it. Otherwise, we're basically saying "oh hey, here's this cool thing. but we've hidden it and we're not going to tell you how to access it."

There should be info on it -somewhere-. Otherwise users will want to use it but since they won't know how they'll feel dumb (which I did earlier until I was told about the keyboard shortcut).

#9 @helen
10 years ago

I see Unicode support as the majority feature, with the emoji support being WP-style icing (not unimportant, but more of a bonus). Emoji-specific support is about making sure images show up wherever native emoji don't. The underlying Unicode character support includes many more characters than emoji, which is what we are now better supporting in terms of saving. What are we telling people for the headline - hooray, we don't truncate your post when you enter emoji or anymore, so you should enter lots of them and we promise we won't show any ugly boxes? Are we doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to beat the "emoji support" drum, when it's more than that?

#10 @DrewAPicture
10 years ago

  • Keywords 4.2-strings added

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10 years ago

#12 @strider72
10 years ago

  • Keywords changed from needs-codex, has-patch, 4.2-strings to needs-codex has-patch 4.2-strings

Now that there's a Codex page about emoji, why not just link the help tab to that page?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Emoji

#13 @DrewAPicture
10 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch 4.2-strings removed
  • Summary changed from Add an Emoji section to the Help tab on post edit screen to Add an Emoji page to the Codex

#14 @DrewAPicture
10 years ago

  • Keywords needs-codex removed
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from assigned to closed

Let's call this fixed as the Codex page exists and we'll hand this off to the docs team.

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