kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.18.0[ibus] enable new emoji picker [1] but without media-fonts/noto-emoji this not work very well, many emoji are missing. [1] https://pointieststick.com/2019/12/08/this-week-in-kde-easy-emoji-input-and-more/ Reproducible: Always
Maybe, there should be a more meaningful use flag "emoji" or something like that on the plasma meta package, that depends on plasma-desktop[ibus] and noto-emoji. However, it should depend on a more recent, that in tree version of noto-emoji. With the current version of noto-emoji, the emoji-picker is broken (shows only a few emoji and and all of them are black/white. See Bug 701702 and https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/f34ean/the_new_emoji_picker/
app-i18n/ibus itself has an emoji flag, does this support depend on it being enabled as well?
Yes ibus need emoji use flag enabled, without this emoji-picker window is empty
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=fef7fd441a44f4d38435a326bf21172eb26e3589 commit fef7fd441a44f4d38435a326bf21172eb26e3589 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-03-22 15:32:32 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-22 15:44:07 +0000 kde-plasma/plasma-desktop: Add USE emoji Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/709742 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.94, Repoman-2.3.21 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml | 1 + .../plasma-desktop-5.18.49.9999.ebuild | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- .../plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-9999.ebuild | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
(In reply to Till Schäfer from comment #1) > However, it should depend on a more recent, that in tree version of > noto-emoji. With the current version of noto-emoji, the emoji-picker is > broken (shows only a few emoji and and all of them are black/white. See Bug > 701702 and https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/f34ean/the_new_emoji_picker/ I have installed media-fonts/noto-emoji-20200311 but what I see still matches your description.
I can confirm, that the problem persists after upgrading to media-fonts/noto-emoji-20200311. I have also tried to upgrade to fonttools 4.0 with no luck (dev-python/defcon PYTHON_TARGETS: -python2_7 is needed for that).
found a way to get it working by looking at the arch changes mentioned in the reddit discussion. seems like arch installs and activates the following fallback rule for noto fonts https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/66-noto-color-emoji.conf?h=packages/noto-fonts-emoji When i install that file to /etc/font/conf.avail and enable it (eselect fontconfig enable 66-noto-color-emoji.conf), the emoji picker shows colored emojis.
Created attachment 640948 [details] proper fontconfig file I found that fontconfig file above from arch repos is not enough to enable system-wide emoji support, attaching file that works consistently everywhere (tested qt apps, gtk apps, chromium, firefox and some random text editors) this should really be a part of noto-emoji package.
So, what do we do with this now? Plasma 5.19.5 is just around the corner which will be our next stable candidate.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0bab4991442bc50bbca56075d3842cc2bf90a4a4 commit 0bab4991442bc50bbca56075d3842cc2bf90a4a4 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-09-28 23:11:20 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-09-29 12:46:45 +0000 kde-plasma/plasma-desktop: Add IUSE=emoji Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/709742 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.8, Repoman-3.0.1 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> ...5.19.5-force-emojier-use-color-emoji-font.patch | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++ kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml | 1 + .../plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-5.19.5.ebuild | 10 +++++++-- 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
