Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Hi, fonts-symbola is part of the desktop-common seed which means that is installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.). It looks like the only reason it was added was for basic black & white emoji support. Ubuntu 18.04 introduces color emoji support which works in most non-br

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-05 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
👍 On 5 February 2018 at 18:41, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Hi, > > fonts-symbola is part of the desktop-common seed which means that is > installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.). It > looks like the only reason it was added was for basic black & white > emoji support. > > Ub

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Jeremy, On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:41:08PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > fonts-symbola is part of the desktop-common seed which means that is > installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.). It > looks like the only reason it was added was for basic black & white > emoji su

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:32 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Is this question perhaps better suited to ubuntu-devel? Or as a poll of the > individual desktop flavors that will be affected? I thought ubuntu-release was the correct way to notify Ubuntu flavors since flavors need to be subscribed to thi

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-07 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:51:13AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Also, some flavors like Kylin can't post to ubuntu-devel without moderation. To be clear (for others), this isn't by some particular policy. I believe that people can be whitelisted into ubuntu-devel@. I don't think that anyone would

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:51:13AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:32 AM, Steve Langasek > wrote: > > Is this question perhaps better suited to ubuntu-devel? Or as a poll of the > > individual desktop flavors that will be affected? > I thought ubuntu-release was the correct

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Fair enough, It's just that so far none of the flavors have responded, so > I'm not sure if they considered this addressed at them. > > Which flavors need to sign off on this? Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, > UbuntuKylin? Representative

Re: Emoji font installed for all desktop flavors?

2018-02-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:35:54AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Steve Langasek > wrote: > > Fair enough, It's just that so far none of the flavors have responded, so > > I'm not sure if they considered this addressed at them. > > > > Which flavors need to sign off