Yes, we discussed that recently. Showing colored emoji would be nice, but there seems to be precious little support for SVG in OpenType on Linux. AFAICT only Mozilla applications can handle emojione or twemoji at the moment. Even emojione-picker uses svg files instead. If there is high-level support for Gtk applications anywhere, I haven't found it yet. There are options, adding plain svg files (850!) to the Onboard project, or parsing EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf ourselves (?). I'm not really looking forward to either, though. Are there any others?
-- 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: New 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
