On MacOS, the workflow for emojis is that you open the picker via the keyboard shortcut (Super+. on KDE), and if you click on one, it gets inserted in the chat or text box.
KDE only copies to the clipboard, and I need to manually insert it after I also manually turn the focus back to where I was typing. This is cumbersome in practice. Is there a way to emulate the MacOS behavior? I can type the shortcut blind, pushing Return for the last selected emoji and then being dropped back automatically would help immensely.
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Hi - this feature has been requested via the KDE Bugtracking System: 434932 – Emoji Selector should enter the selected Emojis directly
Just for reference, as noted in the comments on that request:
such functionality really requires being an input method, and this is implemented as a tiny standalone app, rather than as an input method.
This looks like something that will require someone with the time, ability and interest to jump in and figure out how to implement 
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Thanks for letting me know, this is exactly what I want.
These were the good news.
The bad news:
2021-03-25 13:26 UTC by qwerty287
is the date when this bug was filed. So, more than 4 years ago.
Call me a pessimist, but I don’t see this getting implemented anytime soon. There’s a workaround by a script in the report, but this works only under X, since it needs xdotool (I never could get ydotool to work on my PCs).
So, overall not much hope. Any other workarounds?