Bug 483489

Summary: emoji selector black and white and many emojis failing
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: foormea
Component: Emoji SelectorAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: fanzhuyifan
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.10   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: emoji selector all black and white

Description foormea 2024-03-13 21:58:39 UTC
Created attachment 167130 [details]
emoji selector all black and white

Debian testing (trixie).
A recent system update (in the past ~2 weeks) has caused the emoji selector to show emojis in black and white, see attachment.
Selecting an emoji and copy/pasting it elsewhere works just fine and the emojis show up just fine in yellow in other programs.

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Comment 1 fanzhuyifan 2024-03-14 17:45:56 UTC
This happens when the emoji fonts are not correctly configured. E.g., when noto-fonts-emoji is not installed.
Comment 2 foormea 2024-03-14 20:27:02 UTC
I do have the package installed:

```
$ aptitude search emoji | grep ^i
i A fonts-noto-color-emoji - color emoji font from Google
```

I have the same behaviour on 2 systems.
Comment 3 fanzhuyifan 2024-03-14 21:04:27 UTC
(In reply to foormea from comment #2)
> I do have the package installed:
> 
> ```
> $ aptitude search emoji | grep ^i
> i A fonts-noto-color-emoji - color emoji font from Google
> ```
> 
> I have the same behaviour on 2 systems.

There also needs to be some font config settings. For reference, see https://forum.manjaro.org/t/emojis-in-applications-are-only-black-white-how-do-i-set-only-colourful-emojis/31190 and/or BUG 481459.

This is a downstream system configuration issue.