[TEAM VOTE] Adding support for color emoji to Xubuntu

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Since I'm an old fart that would prefer no emojis at all, -1 from me. ;)

Cheers,
Pasi

On 23.6.2019 4.11, Sean Davis wrote:
>
> Hello Team!
>
> During the last community meeting, we briefly discussed bring color 
> emoji to Xubuntu [1]. We're revisiting this now since Xfce 4.14 is 
> just around the corner, bringing with it GTK+3 and native emoji 
> support. In any native input or text area, you can now right click, 
> select "Insert Emoji", and display an emoji picker [2]. Emoji are even 
> supported in the terminal! Firefox and Thunderbird include their own 
> native color emoji support. If emoji are going to be everywhere, I 
> think users benefit from Xubuntu providing full support for them.
>
> I've included screenshots to help with this vote [2]. The first 
> screenshot shows the emoji picker as it is now, with non-color emoji 
> populated. The second shows the same picker, but after color emoji 
> support is enabled. The third screenshot shows the native emoji 
> support in Xfce Terminal.
>
> Please vote +1 if you are in favor of adding support for color emoji 
> in Xubuntu.
>
> To participate in this vote, you must be part of Xubuntu Team [3]. 
> Please reply to this list with +1 to approve, -1 to reject, or 0 to 
> abstain.
>
> [1] 
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2019/xubuntu-devel.2019-06-14-22.00.log.html#l-121
> (heh, even the logs render color emoji at 22:45)
>
> [2] https://imgur.com/a/UJgtYt1
>
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-team 
> <https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-team>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sean Davis (bluesabre)
> Xubuntu Technical Lead
>
>

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Xubuntu Website Lead           › https://xubuntu.org/
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