There were a few responses on the ubuntu-release mailing list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- release/2018-February/004283.html
It looks like we're going to drop fonts-symbola from desktop-common. Flavors are free to install fonts-noto-color-emoji themselves if they like since Kubuntu objects to it being in desktop-common. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746310 Title: Drop fonts-symbola from platform? Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola is a recommends in platform.bionic desktop- common so it's installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.). It's a transitional package now depending on fonts-symbola. The package description is "This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0." It was added to the seeds in LP: #1137630 explicitly for emoji support. Ubuntu Desktop (and Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu MATE) now include fonts- noto-color-emoji for this instead. GTK+ in Ubuntu 18.04 supports color emoji. Qt does not. fonts-symbola has installed-size 3,178 kB according to apt fonts-noto-color-emoji has installed-size 7,277 kB Should we replace fonts-symbola with fonts-noto-color-emoji? Or should we drop it entirely? The only other Color Emoji font I expect to be available in Ubuntu soon is EmojiTwo. EmojiTwo lags behind in supporting the latest emoji standards. Screenshots of Noto Color Emoji and EmojiTwo are at https://community.ubuntu.com/t/try-color-emoji-in-18-04/1492 ubuntu-release list proposal: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-February/004276.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1746310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
