It's no secret that emoji play an integral part in today's daily communication. From a user experience point of view, emoji pictographs make up a universally recognized language that adds emotional nuance to conversations. They've been integrated throughout our digital lives, and in 2018, Chrome gained a shortcut to quickly insert them on the desktop. It poses a problem for Chrome OS users, though — clicking on the context menu launches the on-screen keyboard, which is clunky and unintuitive with a mouse. However, that's changing soon as Google is working on a dedicated emoji picker for Chrome OS.
We've been this feature over on the Chromium Gerrit, and in the last few weeks, more details have emerged from the repository. It received numerous back-end changes and UI polish in recent Chrome OS Canary builds, inching closer to a finished product. If your device is on Chrome OS Beta, Dev, or Canary, you can try it now by copying and paste chrome://flags/#enable-cros-ime-system-emoji-picker into Chrome's URL bar and enable it from the drop-down menu. After you restart your device, right-click any text field and click Emoji at the top of the context menu.
