Thanks for the quick response, Brad. I agree, launchpad works quite well for us. There's not really much pressure to move away, currently. Also, I feel, as long as Onboard is installed by default in Ubuntu, we should stay close. The situation may change with unity 8, we'll see.
> I've always expected support for CBLC/CBDT color format fonts > in Linux before SVGinOT. Seems you were right, there's support for (what I believe is) Google's CBLC/CBDT in freetype. I got this example here https://gist.github.com/jokertarot/7583938 to render colored emoji from your emojione-android.ttf. That could be a possible path forward. Don't know if this is accessible from anywhere higher in the stack. For SVGinOT there's just this bug report: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?46141 I'd still prefer SVG over png for Onboard, though, because most of the UI is freely scalable. All the other images we use as key labels are SVG too. > An option for now is to add emoji support using the existing > font rendering system. That's what we currently do, yes. If there's no reasonable way to get color, we'll just wait for better times. > Both of my fonts provide regular fallback non-color glyphs. I've seen that the fonts-emojione Ubuntu package has gray-scale glyphs. Is that a special version of your font or a fallback? They render fine in Onboard, btw. ** Bug watch added: Non-GNU Savannah Bug Tracker #46141 http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?46141 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1615575 Title: Emoji support Status in Onboard: Confirmed Status in onboard package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Any plans for emoji support? These days it's commonly used in communication. If onboard had emoji support it would be a very useful tool. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1615575/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
