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 ## Story Time
 
-Hello, there! I'm Tomas and I wrote emoji-keyboard years ago. It was never a passion project, I was just highly annoyed by all available means of using emoji on Linux at the time. It's 2022 and using emoji on Linux is still a PITA. At least we got system wide color emoji.
+> TL,DR I can no longer maintain this app. I'm releasing an updated version that will continue
+> working for a while, but it'd be nice if someone took up maintenance.
 
-Since it's not a passion project (and I got plenty of those), it doesn't pay for itself, and I even got a proper job now, I will likely not be maintaining this package much.
+Hello, there! I'm Tomas and I wrote emoji-keyboard years ago. I was annoyed how using emoji on Linux
+involved a lot of copy-pasting. Not that I was a heavy emoji user, mind you. However, as emoji became
+more and more mainstream, not using them at all was becoming impossible. So I begrudgingly wrote a little
+Python/GTK app in an afternoon and released it in case somebody else had similar feelings on the matter.
 
-That said I did rewrite the app last spring, using rust and third-party libraries to optimize performance and maintenance cost. And then forgot to release it.
+It was always an afterthought to maintain this app, and GTK soon proved to be too much of a PITA.
+So I rewrote it in Angular/Electron with a Python sidecar for system interface. That limited the
+adoption of the app as many folk have irrational hate for all things Electron.
 
-So here I am releasing the latest version (4.0.0)
-with react-native front end, rust + c backend, and much simplified and reduced code base.
+Also, since Linux at the time had no support for color emoji, I included several graphical emoji
+sets to give an idea of how others are going to see what you type. That had the downside of making
+binaries *very* large. Angular, which I picked without much forethought turned out to be a PITA
+as well, so I neglected the app for a long while. It worked fine for me, but GitHub collected a bit
+of a backlog of issues.
 
-If you find new bugs here, do open an issue. Just know that I have no time for this and it takes me about a year to fix things unless they affect me personally.
+So last spring (2022) I decided to rethink and rewrite the app, so it wouldn't need much
+maintenance and to address at least some of the outstanding issues.
 
-## Changes
+I decided to switch out Electron for Tauri, Angular for React (Native/Expo), and to drop sidecar completely.
+Since most (all?) Linux distros now natively support color emoji and even allow switching system emoji font,
+there were no longer any need to include graphics. All of the above resulted in much smaller bundle, lower
+resource usage, and more responsive app. I can also fix bugs in React, without developing a massive headache
+Angular used to give me. Tauri allowed to replace a massive sidecar and complex Electron main script with
+third party native dependencies and just a couple lines of Rust. Third party means I don't have to maintain
+them!
 
-- Much smaller bundles. No more bundled emoji sets, since every system out there supports color emoji. No more electron, I still like electron, but tauri fits better for a small utility like this.
-- Fewer settings and features. Just what I use personally, otherwise I don't even remember how to fix these things even if I get the time.
+All good, right? Unfortunately real life got very hectic around the same time and I forgot to actually release
+this version, I didn't even push it to GitHub. Now things have settled down, but I no longer use Linux for work
+reasons. So I'm releasing the much improved and simplified new version and calling for someone to take up
+maintenance! I can walk you through the code any weekend that would suit you and give you write access to the repo.
+If you're interested, contact me here, by email, or any way you deem suitable.
+
+It took a bit of work to make sure this compiles and runs after system updates, but if you use Ubuntu, this
+should continue working at least until next LTS.
+
+## Usage
+
+Since the version of Tauri I used had issues with global shortcuts, I decided to return to the old mechanic
+of manually assigning shortcut in your desktop environment's settings.
+
+Launching the app brings up the palette, closing the window puts it in the tray. Launching the app again
+simply brings up the window of a running instance. First launch may be a little slow, but as it stays in
+memory afterwards, subsequent launches will be instant.
+
+The interface should be pretty intuitive, up/down arrows to select emoji, typing to search. Right/left arrows
+just move the cursor in the search box, this could be improved. Enter types selected emoji in the focused app.
+Or just use the mouse. If you want to browse emoji by category, you'll have to use the mouse, didn't have the
+time to implement Ctrl-Tab.
+
+There are also some settings. You can enable shortcode overlay over selected emoji, if you also enable expansion,
+typing the shortcode will instantly replace it with that emoji.
+
+## License
+
+I'm releasing the new version under MIT. I've come to dislike GPL and I want to give as much freedom to
+users and hackers as possible. Hack away!