efck-chat-keyboard
Noto Emoji (Monochrome) version
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Noto Color Emoji is huge.
Describe the solution you'd like
Make a version with Noto Emoji (Monochrome) dependency, instead of Noto Color Emoji.
- https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji
Additional context
Make use static NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf (not variable NotoEmoji-VariableFont_wght.ttf).
- ZIP: https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Noto%20Emoji
We don't bundle the font for Windows (not needed / doesn't work), macOS (not needed / doesn't work), or Debian (font is installed via a package dependency). We only bundle the font for the linux tgz archive.
The supported icon fonts are listed here:
https://github.com/efck-chat-keyboard/efck/blob/096a7b6cc4004911c06337fa736a25ac67e1e628/efck/tabs/emoji.py#L100-L141
I guess we could add "Noto Emoji" in there somewhere ...
Also note, you can force any emoji font with ICON_FONT environment variable.
or Debian (font is installed via a package dependency)
Yes, above I mean DEB strong dependency on fonts-noto-color-emoji — this package is outdated in all stable distros:
- https://repology.org/project/fonts:noto-emoji/versions
So, it might be good set it to Recommends (instead of Depends) in ../debian/control.
But if we only recommend it, then we have to vendor a fallback font, which can be "Noto Emoji", but that would increase the DEB package size by 700%! Any other ideas?
What's wrong with the outdated font besides a few missing glyphs? :sweat_smile: