RPM packaging contribution

[guoyunhe]

I packaged this font for RPM based Linux, like openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS and RHEL.

http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aguoyunhebrave&package=twemoji-color-font

[13rac1]

Hi! I've been super busy and just checking this out now. There's no fontconfig installed. Is that on purpose? These fonts will not work correctly without the provided fontconfig: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font/blob/master/linux/fontconfig/56-twemoji-color.conf

[guoyunhe]

I know. Because this fontconfig file will affect users default font settings, I suggest to not include it on system level. Instead, users can set it manually.

I am trying to pursuade fontconfig developers to add support emoji unicode block. After that we could use:

<match>
  <test name="family">
    <string>sans-serif</string>
  </test>
  <test name="lang">
    <string>emoji</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="family">
    <string>EmojiOne Color</string>
  </edit>
</match>

[13rac1]

Oh! You make Fontweak! Nice work!

Because this fontconfig file will affect users default font settings

Yes, exactly ;) The included install process is designed for the average person who just wants emoji and doesn't care about font customization. A seamless install process for most users. It's not for you... or even me. For example, on Ubuntu: apt-add-repository, apt update, then apt install. Done.

The majority of people don't care about fonts as long as they work. My assumption earlier this year, but I consider it validated now. I've only had a few discussions about changing the default system fonts in thousands of user installs.

Honestly, I don't have the time for the support requests and complaints if I recommend these packages in their current state. A potential solution is a "Font Power User" section in the README files? I'm not sure what else to do?

[guoyunhe]

I have no better solution in the font side. However, I think this is something that fontconfig should do. If they support Unicode Emoji block, this problem can be solved perfectly.

[danimesq]

@guoyunhe
After packaging the .rpm, how to make it automatically work in my OS?

[guoyunhe]

@guoyunhe
After packaging the .rpm, how to make it automatically work in my OS?

In GNU/Linux, here is no way that automatically works. Basically, fontconfig doesn't support emoji as subset. Users have to make some manually configuration as I mentioned before. Or they could uninstall all other emoji fonts and DejaVu Sans. You can give this font a super high priority but it will break some software.

[13rac1]

My suggestion is to package this with the fontconfig I've provided. It is not ideal, but the only "out of the box" solution. I haven't merged this because I don't want the support requests when it doesn't work as the other packages do. I'm leaving it open for people to find though.