Package: task-desktop Version: 3.44 Severity: wishlist Hi! As much as many of us consider emojis to be a big mistake on part of the Unicode consortium, it's undeniable that these characters see quite wide use these days. Thus, at least one font that convers this range should be installed by default.
Of these, it seems there are only two general-purpose fonts: * fonts-symbola (nice) * ttf-unifont (ugly and pixellated) There are also fonts that have colourful images instead of glyphs, but these are unfit for most programs, and are not supported by our current libraries. It's an issue of so-called "text presentation" vs "emoji presentation" that, according to the Unicode standard, programs should select based on environment being "informal like texting and chats" vs "formal like word processing" (TR51 §4 and §2). Text presentation is also needed when the character's color is to be set via metadata such as CSS or ANSI SGR. Thus, even library support issues aside, we need at least one font that provides text presentation. Package firefox-esr includes /usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts/EmojiOneMozilla.ttf which provides emoji presentation, but is not available to other programs via fontconfig for the above reasons. Thus, please add "Recommends: fonts-symbola" to task-desktop. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-rc1-debug-00028-ga124d3bef9d4 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages task-desktop depends on: ii desktop-base 9.0.7 pn tasksel <none> ii xorg 1:7.7+19 ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.7+19 ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.7+19 Versions of packages task-desktop recommends: ii alsa-utils 1.1.6-1 pn anacron <none> pn avahi-daemon <none> pn eject <none> ii firefox-esr 60.0.2esr-1 ii iw 4.14-0.1 pn libnss-mdns <none> ii libu2f-udev 1.1.5-1 pn sudo <none> pn task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | task-kde-desktop | ta <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 task-desktop suggests no packages.
