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 support. > Ubuntu 18.04 introduces color emoji support which works in most > non-browser GTK apps. > Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, and Ubuntu MATE already include fonts-noto-color-emoji. > I'd like to remove fonts-symbola from desktop-common. > Can I add fonts-noto-color-emoji to desktop-common? > There are more details at https://launchpad.net/bugs/1746310 Is this question perhaps better suited to ubuntu-devel? Or as a poll of the individual desktop flavors that will be affected? I don't expect the Release Team per se to have any objections to this. I think it's self-evidently correct to remove fonts-symbola from desktop-common. The only question is whether to replace it in desktop-common with fonts-noto-color-emoji, or to move fonts-symbola to the per-flavor desktop seeds that aren't using fonts-noto-color-emoji currently; and that is something that should be decided in consultation with the flavors. Since there is a ~4MiB install size increase with this change, and it appears that Qt-based desktops will get no benefit from the change, the flavors should definitely have a say. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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