Remove :colon: and :-) preview

[nclm]

Background

Currently when hovering an emoji in the picker, this appears:

It is a lot of information, and not easy to process. Also the :colon: notation is rare and most often not used since the picker inputs Unicode as a default.

Proposed solution

Only show the name of the emoji, vertically centred. Maybe the bar can be slightly less tall, showing a smaller preview of the icon.

Alternatives

If the user have selected the “Use the :colon: instead of the Emoji unicode” option, then the :colon: preview could be displayed back, but only in that case.

[rugk]

Alternative suggestion: We could hide the preview pane in total. Optionally…

Because this is something emoji-mart supports: hidePreview.
Everything else would require custom CSS and I doubt it is useful to hide these colon syntax. IMHO, it's not a useless information to display, because it also shows you some words/search terms you can later use to find the same emoji.

[Prometheos2]

Or maybe hide it when it's too long, or simply redundant with the emoji's name?

Although, that might be a loss of process time for no big deals, so might not be the best option

[rugk]

Yeah, it's not really a big priority issue.

However, I keep it open, as it is a valid idea. If anyone wants to implement it, PRs are of course appreciated, as usual.