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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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Me: "Huh, that's neat. I wonder if KDE has anything like that."
Me: Tries pushing (Super + .)
KDE: instantly pops up an emoji selector 🖥️
Well, I guess I learned something from reading this, so it was somewhat worthwhile.
(Now I wonder which of them introduced that first... I'm betting on KDE.)
Not really, it was actually Apple that introduced an emoji picker in 2013. The Windows one works since 2017 and KDE has it since 2020.
So I can blame apple for emoji popularization. Figures.
:(
Windows also includes the multi character not emojis like the arms up shrug smile and table flips.
I had no idea this existed lmao