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baedert / corebird

Native Gtk+ Twitter Client
https://corebird.baedert.org
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Feature: Emoticons #773

Closed dsofeir closed 6 years ago

dsofeir commented 6 years ago

Emoticons are absent from corebird when viewing and composing tweets. Is this deliberate? What's the reason?

Is there an appetite amongst the userbase and/or the developer team to add this?

baedert commented 6 years ago

Guessing you are talking about emojis. There is an emoji chooser in gtk+3.22.$newest, but for colored emojis you need updates for cairo and fontconfig as well. Once you have that, you can view them mostly fine: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKYzfXUW0AMdGnG.jpg

Inserting them is another story....: https://twitter.com/corebirdclient/status/910458735243513857

dsofeir commented 6 years ago

Yes, great thank you!

However I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have double checked that I am running the latest version of libraries mentioned. It's still not working. That may be because I am using the KDE desktop?

baedert commented 6 years ago

Using KDE doesn't change anything. The dependencies are just very recent so they might not be in your distro yet, or you simply don't have an emoji font installed (like noto-emoji or whatever your distro calls it if it's there...).

dsofeir commented 6 years ago

Ah, fantastic! That was it, I didn't have an emoji font installed. I added the package 'twemoji-color-font' and everything works. Thank you