Please stop providing google-android-emoji-fonts. Can you make it a transitional package pointing to google-noto-emoji-color-fonts instead? My understanding of the black & white version is that it has been obsolete for 4 years. I think it's useless as a fallback emoji font because any color emoji font would at least support the same emoji from that long ago. https://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.3/
This pull request removes it from the default install https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/180#request_diff I think that is good enough, there is no need to drop the package. By the way, not all color emoji fonts are really up-to-date, currently only "Noto Color Emoji" seems to have all the Unicode 10.0.0 emoji and render all the sequences from http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/ correctly. "Emoji One" lacks all the emoji added in Unicode 10.0.0 and renders many sequences incorrectly which were already defined in http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/4.0/ (released when Unicode 9.0.0 was released). The best black and white Emoji font currently is Symbola, it has all the Emoji added in Uniocde 10.0.0 (and very nicely drawn in my opinion). But it renders *all* Emoji sequences incorrectly. *And* with the latest fontconfig update, colour emoji fonts are used by default as long as any of the known colour emoji fonts is installed, so Symbola would be used only as a fallback when no colour emoji font is installed or the colour emoji font which is installed lacks some newer emoji.
But some X11 apps can't support color emoji font, we need to provide some black and white fonts for some X11 apps. Maybe it is okay to keep it in Fedora, and not install by default.
(In reply to Peng Wu from comment #2) > > Maybe it is okay to keep it in Fedora, and not install by default. Agreed, I don't think Android Emoji is the best choice to be included by default. Patrick Uiterwijk: do you remember the motivation behind commit https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/c/72d02210013696513644d5671d6ba453cd513921?branch=master ?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle. Changing version to '28'.
Closing, since google-android-emoji-fonts is no-longer installed by default. I've also added a note in the description directing potential users towards Noto Emoji.
With all due respect, I am reopening this bug. The initial bug description still stands and this package should not be provided in Fedora any more.
The difficulty, here, is that I’m not convinced, and I’m the one who’d be volunteering my time to doing the work. We have lots of fonts that haven’t been updated for years, but that doesn’t necessarily make them useless. I agree it’s not a great emoji font nowadays, but, users being users, I expect some have a preference for it nonetheless. The package takes little to no effort to keep, and, as far as I’m aware, isn’t harmful. Can you change my mind?
If it's not good as an emoji font then what's the point of keeping it in Fedora? The package literally has no other purpose. Emoji fonts are different than regular fonts. If they are not updated every single year (with the current pace for Unicode), then they will quickly become out of date and useless. As was recommended in comment #1, I suggest the Symbola font if someone wants a black and white font. This is what is offered by default in Kubuntu since Qt doesn't fully support color emoji.
Removing the font will break formatting of all existing documents that use it since other emoji fonts will have different metrics. You can not remove old fonts because better one appeared, no one wants to re-layout existing documents. Symbola is a dead end since it just changed licensing to non-free
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #9) > Removing the font will break formatting of all existing documents that use > it since other emoji fonts will have different metrics. You can not remove > old fonts because better one appeared, no one wants to re-layout existing > documents. > > Symbola is a dead end since it just changed licensing to non-free Oh, what a pity! It is such a nice font.
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