Noto Emoji (Monochrome) version

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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

[kernc]

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:

efck/efck/tabs/emoji.py

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	ALL_FONT_FAMILIES = [
	'Noto Color Emoji',
	"Twitter Color Emoji",
	'Apple Color Emoji',
	'Segoe UI Emoji',
	"Joypixels",
	# Reconsider
	# "OpenMoji Color",
	"Symbola",
	]
	_TEXT_OFFSET = 0
	_ICON_OFFSET = 0
	if IS_MACOS:
	ICON_FONT_FAMILY = 'Apple Color Emoji'
	_ICON_OFFSET = -5
	# Avoid: "qt.qpa.fonts: Populating font family aliases took 802ms.
	# Replace uses of missing font "X" with one that exists to avoid this cost."
	ALL_FONT_FAMILIES = ()
	elif IS_WIDOWS:
	ICON_FONT_FAMILY = 'Segoe UI Emoji'
	TEXT_FONT.setFamily('Arial')
	ICON_FONT_SIZE -= 3
	_TEXT_OFFSET = 5
	_ICON_OFFSET = -7
	TEXT_FONT_SIZE_PX = 9
	else:
	ICON_FONT_FAMILY = 'Noto Color Emoji'
	TEXT_OFFSET = _TEXT_OFFSET
	ICON_OFFSET = QPoint(0, _ICON_OFFSET)
	_font_file = Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'NotoColorEmoji.ttf'
	if _font_file.is_file():
	logger.info('Loading vendored font NotoColorEmoji.ttf')
	_res = QFontDatabase.addApplicationFont(str(_font_file))
	if _res == -1:
	logger.error('Error loading vendored font.')
	# Read user's font preference from the environment
	ICON_FONT_FAMILY = os.environ.get('ICON_FONT', ICON_FONT_FAMILY)
	ICON_FONT = QFont()
	ICON_FONT.setFamilies([ICON_FONT_FAMILY, *ALL_FONT_FAMILIES])

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Yes, above I mean DEB strong dependency on fonts-noto-color-emoji — this package is outdated in all stable distros: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.

[kernc]

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? 😅