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I use ibus-uniemoji, and I settled with this years ago after trying to find a similar replacement coming from Windows as you.
After install just set up a keyboard shortcut to quickly change between input languages, and you can just type your emojis effortlessly. As it's an input method it doesn't matter what DE you use. Demo gif from Github:
This is definitely a good contender. I do already use 2 different keyboard layouts regularly, so I think it might get annoying when I'm trying to switch between those two. I'll give it a go though, thank you!
I made my own using wofi, https://github.com/deifyed/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_local%2Fbin%2Fexecutable_emoji_prompt
Doesn't auto insert though, but puts it in the clipboard. Paste as many times as you need. If you figure out how to get it to insert into the focused application, do let me know 😁
Not exactly what you may be looking for, but one of the first things I set up in Linux is the "Compose" key. Sun keyboards in the 90's had a dedicated Compose key, and you can enable the functionality still. I usually set it to Right Alt.
The Compose key is kind of like an extended shift key, so 'Compose' + "c" + "/" for example will give you "¢".
The key combinations and characters can be edited in a config file (can't remember off the top of my head).
Not as versatile and an "Emoji picker", but allows quick insertion of Unicode glyphs into text. Useful for ¢£€¥™×° type characters.
hmm, might be worth my while to put my most used emojis into that config file.. thanks for the input!
That's exactly why I always enable the Compose key. It's the fastest and easiest way to just type a variety of Unicode glyphs. The key combinations trend to be intuitive as well.
There's a good chance the default config file will have a pretty decent selection. Although I have edited the config in the past, I haven't done it under KDE. The KDE article on setting up the compose key seems to say that KDE uses a different config file anyways.
Turning on the Compose key is pretty straightforward as I recall, just another setting under Keyboard settings. Finding that config file is still useful if you can't guess the right combo for your desired glyph.
Very useful for using character common in math and science.
Thanks for the link! I couldn't get ibus-uniemoji to work properly, so I'll probably have to settle for this.
2016, I was so pissed we didn't have a proper emoji panel in Linux that I tried to make one. I never got to understand IM properly enough to implement it correctly, but here is the code : https://github.com/Murazaki/EmojiPanel
Just press Control+Shift+U, enter the unicode value in hex, then press enter.