[Bug 1767390] [NEW] Please consider recommends fonts-noto-color-emoji

[Jeremy Bicha]

Public bug reported:

As was discussed earlier in the 18.04 release cycle, Qt doesn't yet have
full support for color emoji. Therefore, Kubuntu includes fonts-symbola
by default for black and white emoji support.

I suggest you also install fonts-noto-color-emoji by default.

In my testing, if both fonts-symbola and fonts-noto-color-emoji are
installed, the Symbola emoji will be used in Qt apps and the Noto color
emoji will be used in most GTK+ apps (LibreOffice, web browsers and apps
based on webbrowser like Atom or Thunderbird are different).

It is reasonable to expect that a decent number of Kubuntu users will
install some GTK+ apps.

I mean one other possible is for libgtk-3-0 itself to recommend fonts-
noto-color-emoji but since Kubuntu includes that library, that ends up
with the same result…

Optionally, if Kubuntu accepts the benefit of having color emoji support
installed by default for the benefit of users of GTK+ apps, we could add
fonts-noto-color-emoji to desktop-common like I originally proposed in
LP: #1746310.

One more point, the text fields in GTK+ apps include an "Insert Emoji"
right-click option. (There are also keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+. or Ctrl+;
to open that Insert Emoji popup and Ctrl+Shift+e to start a special
quick emoji feature. Try Ctrl+shift+e then enter :-) then space for
instance.) That makes emoji far more prominent in GTK+ apps than it is
in Qt.

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: New
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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