https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424084
Bug ID: 424084
Summary: Emoji Picker should show font used and Unicode code
point of a glyph
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.18.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Emoji picker
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: skierp...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
In Fedora 32, the Plasma Emoji Picker was showing lots of rectangles instead of
emojis, then when I installed google-noto-emoji-color-fonts it showed an odd
mix of black & white and color emojis. This is not ibus-ui-emojier-plasma's
fault, however it could provide the Unicode code point of a glyph and the font
from which the glyph comes to help the user figure out what's going on.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run ibus-ui-emojier-plasma in Fedora (see Redhat bugs 1820952 and 1855926 if
it isn't working).
2. Note there are still black rectangles, and a mix of color and black & white
glyphs.
3. Try to figure out what Unicode code point is missing for e.g. "smiling face
with tear"
4. Try to figure out why some glyphs are color and some are black & white.
OBSERVED RESULT
Emoji Picker provides a tooltip that has the name of the character code, e.g.
"smiling face with tear". But it doesn't reveal the code point (U+1F972 for
"smiling face with tear") and it doesn't identify the font providing the glyph.
EXPECTED RESULT
Emoji Picker could display both pieces of information in a right-click context
panel. For what it's worth, the Gnome Character Map "Gucharmap will display the
origin font when you right-click on a glyph." Emoji Picker could also display
the hex code in the missing glyph rectangle (I think this is called the "font
fallback box glyph” or "tofu"), but that's hard to read and doesn't help for
existing characters.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2 using xcb
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Font Viewer program kfontview has a useful popup when you choose a Unicode
Block and then hover over a character: a bigger rendering of the glyph, its
category, and its character number in various Unicode encodings. It's missing
the Unicode character name and the font used . I would like these two utilities
to have similar property pop-ups.
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