Chris, thanks for looking at this and providing quick feedback in the PR.

when it's a macOS specific thing implemented in a questionable fashion.

Agreed that its an unexpected implementation. (I spent a few hours last weekend reading through the macOS input methods documentation and getting nowhere. It turns out the implementation is in an entirely different place...)

I feel like this is a feature similar to support for SimpleFullscreen and #3245. It's specific to one platform, but Alacritty feels out of place and the missing functionality feels is jarring. To include emojis or em dashes in a readme I end up opening the emoji picker in Firefox's location bar, selecting, and then cut-n-pasting into Alacritty. What makes this a kicker is that this window is modal to one application; when switching between applications the dialog disappears entirely. This is unlike my experience with on screen keyboards in other operating systems which are global to the entire system: the character viewer only works for the application which requested it.

If the implementation complexity is hidden internally to glutin/winit would you be okay with adding the necessary keybinding support?

Can't bring up input menu #1895

Description

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Type

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

Issue actions