Bug 504684

Summary:	Black & White emoji in KWrite
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	bdlandry117
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unknown <null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	john.kizer, nate, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	KDE Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description bdlandry117 2025-05-23 00:18:07 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run LiveUSB version of KDE Linux
2. Open KWrite
3. Insert an emoji, regardless of font used

OBSERVED RESULT
- Inserted emoji are displayed in black & white, and low quality

EXPECTED RESULT
- Inserted emoji should be displayed in full color and high quality, as they are in the Emoji selector

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-05-20
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.6-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (13.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is on live USB. I'd rather not commit to installing on a system with such a major bug.

Comment 1 John Kizer 2025-05-27 04:55:30 UTC

Moving to the KDE Linux product since font issues like this are a distribution configuration item.

Just to note, KDE Linux is pre-alpha, in heavy development and with critical components still changing on a regular basis, but also with corresponding ability to have an early impact on its direction. I’d only recommend using it at this time if that description sounds like fun to you. :-)

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-05-28 22:55:17 UTC

It's possible we're missing one of these packages: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=emoji&maintainer=&flagged=

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-06-02 00:57:07 UTC

Can confirm, but only in KWrite. Kate and all other apps tested are fine; Flatpak vs native packaging seems to make no difference.

I can't reproduce this in Flatpak KWrite on my non-KDE-Linux Fedora system, though. How odd.

Comment 4 Harald Sitter 2025-06-02 10:04:00 UTC

We may have lost some font configurations in the changes to /etc

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-08-13 20:29:03 UTC

I'm not seeing this anymore. Looks like it got fixed at some point.