Website > Finding the right gitmoji

[cyrilhamidechi]

Hello @carloscuesta 😎!

First, thank you for what you're doing with that project 👍

Quickly finding the most relevant gitmoji can take some time when new with that approach.
Because of that some might think it can lead to a waste of time and does not encourage their team to use it.
Here are few suggestions (starting with the easiest) to improve this task:

• Alphabetical (or at least something "logical" 😄) sorting
• Shortlist of the most common dev actions (bug, perf, new feature, wip, ...)
• Group gitmoji by concerns. E.g.: Platform (OS, Windows, Android, ...), CI, Cosmetics, Quality, ...
• For each emoji, add a shortlist of "potential other related" gitmoji (e.g bug => hotfix)
• Quick search engine

Thanks again you for your work

Cyril

[ricealexander]

There was a proposal to categorize emojis into different groups. #352

It might be nice to see some organization. I know it was hard for me when I was first interested in gitmoji because it can be overwhelming to know what emojis to use when, and there aren't many cues of which emoji are related to one another.

[johannchopin]

I propose to implement a draggable list of all gitmojis that the user can sort (easy to implement using react-sortable-hoc). Just store then the new order in the localstorage.

The user will be then able to customise the order of the gitmojis 🎉.

What do you think about this idea? 😉

[Lyokolux]

@johannchopin this can be a start for everyone. Sorting the emojis by preferences is always pleasant 👍

For the new users, automatic sorting can be helpful too. At least to see the categories between all these gitmojis and what they cover ! As @ricealexander points out : it is overwhelming at first to have all these emojis showing up. The new user should read them all to get an idea of which one best suits his or her needs.

there aren't many cues of which emoji are related to one another.

The current way is to use CTRL+F 😃

[vhoyer]

in addition to sorting, I would like to see a <hr> kinda element that the user can choose to put between rows to separate context, personally, if this was added I'd sort things like:

fixes------------------------------------

🚑 🐛 💚 🔒
🏁 🤖 🍎 🍏
✏️

-----------------------------------------

...
kinda of style

[johannchopin]

What do you think to simple have a button Sort Gitmojis that open a list of all gitmojis on the right site of the page that you can order. On change detection it updates the GitmojisList's state. Something like that:

⚠️ I don't think it's a good idea to make the cards directly draggable (was my first idea) since there will be maybe 2 layouts for the GitmojisList (grid or raw). See #314

[vhoyer]

@johannchopin, why don't you think it's a good ideia to make the cards directly draggable? Whats the problem in having two layouts?

[carloscuesta]

IMHO the sort should be done via select/option with some criteria, not drag and drop on the cards

[johannchopin]

@johannchopin, why don't you think it's a good ideia to make the cards directly draggable? Whats the problem in having two layouts?

Was actually just about the simplicity of the implementation. Having draggable cards needs to update the GitmojisList itself in many way (logics, DOM structure). So implementing just a new, isolated component seems more comfortable for this project.

[carloscuesta]

Hey! Quite an old thread, I think there are some great ideas suggested in the first comment, some of them are already implemented and other ones no.

Feel free to break this issue down into smaller ones so we can easily implement what's missing and also seek volunteers for those ones.

Thanks! 🙏🏼