I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! 😁
The instructions are super simple, Windows Key + . (period) opens up a little overlay which contains Emojis, GIFs, Clipboard, and some other stuff I’m not sure is useful.
Ill end this post with a question for you all:
-What was something you learned about technology FAR later than you SHOULD have?
Yep, it’s a quite old feature, but don’t get too excited, it’s a pain in the neck to use. It’s like they put it there without even using it. Very unfriendly experience.
How is it hard to use? It’s just a list of emojis by type with a search box like any phone.
If I type
:handthen [Win+;] I expect the hand emoji section to be shown, or at least the search box to be auto-filled.I don’t want to touch the mouse to select an emoji, I just type, select (with keyboard) and go on with my writing.
Changing focus to type a search term in a small pupup is non productive.
I rechecked just now, the search field is gone in Win11, even more useless now… M$ is not even trying, too focused on adding spyware lol
I think it’s probably the shortcut to open it, I’ve already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Something you’d need to use a few times to get used to
I agree, I think it’s only going to work for me with memorizing it because one of the MMORPGs I used to play used the period key for chat options, so I’m piggybacking on that.
The shortcut choice sort of screams “there weren’t many shortcuts left”