[Bug 1496761] "Noto Color Emoji" would be a better default emoji font than "Emoji One"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496761



--- Comment #16 from Jeremy Bicha <jbicha(a)ubuntu.com&gt; ---
(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #15)
>  We know all this, but decided that it was the best solution for this
> purpose
>  already. There should be discussions about this on the Fedora Workstation
>  list, as well as in the GNOME bugzilla and/or wiki. If in doubt about any of
>  those, I'd be happy repeating those arguments on the fontconfig list, if you
>  send an email there and CC: me. 
1. I don't think you've had these conversations as broadly as you remember.

  a. https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Emoji says nothing about preferring a
particular emoji font.

  b.  You shut this thread down immediately:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

  c. I haven't been able to find any fontconfig list discussion of this issue.

  d. This bug has been closed without hardly any discussion, and they were
closed by a fix that appears to me to be side-stepping the actual bug report
and title.

  e. There was an October 23 Fedora Workstation meeting. Based on my reading of
the logs, I think it's fair to say that if it wasn't for your opinion, the team
would have decided the other direction (Noto instead of EmojiOne).

2. As far as Fedora 27 goes, it looks like the Emoji One decision is final. Ok.
I understand freezes and Fedora is welcome to make its own decisions.

3. Here are my objections:

  a. You have said repeatedly (in the fontconfig commit and the October 23 
meeting) that Emoji One/Two is GNOME's preferred emoji font.

  b. EmojiTwo in its current form is unpackagable. Comment #14 here gives hope,
but currently that is vaporware.

Therefore, I expect many GNOME distros to be choosing Noto Color Emoji and so I
object to the characterization that this is GNOME's decision because I believe
you didn't actually talk to other GNOME distros about this.

To summarize your position since you didn't mention it here: You don't want to
use the same emoji as Android because you see the emoji choice as a brand
recognition opportunity. I'm not sure our users will see it the same way.

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