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Bug#1110872: ITP: wofi-emoji -- Simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi



Hi,

Quoting Martin Dosch (2025-08-11 22:05:01)
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Martin Dosch <martin@mdosch.de>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : wofi-emoji
>   Version         : 1.1.0
>   Upstream Contact: Zeioth <Zeioth@hotmail.com>
> * URL             : https://github.com/Zeioth/wofi-emoji
>   License         : MIT (Expat)
>   Programming Lang: bash
>   Description     : Simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi
> 
> Simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi that relies on wtype and wl-clipboard.
> 
> I intend to package it and find sponsors in the golang team. Eventually 
> I want to maintain it as DM.

why in the golang team? The software contains literally two lines of actual
source code and those are written in bash.

When packaging it, make sure to not forget to credit Mu-An Chiou
<me@muanchiou.com> as the list of emojis in wofi-emoji comes from
https://github.com/muan/emojilib Maybe it even makes sense to package emojilib
separately in the javascript/nodejs team and then let wofi-emoji use its data.

Related, I was about to package https://github.com/biox/shmoji which does not
only support wofi, rofi, dmenu etc but also other means to select emojis
including fuzzy-search while at the same time remaining a small script.
Unfortunately, my plea to tag a release have remained unanswered:
https://github.com/biox/shmoji/issues/9

So why not instead of packaging the 2-line wofi-emoji or the 100-line shmoji
package https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji which seems to support everything that
wofi-emoji or shmoji can do and can do more, supports more selectors, can load
the emoji data from other files and can insert the emoji and supports
clipboards of different display managers. The project also has nearly 1000
stars on github and is thus orders of magnitude more popular than the other two
projects.

What do you think?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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