[FFe] [UIFe] gnome-characters 42
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-characters (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Benefit
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The new GNOME Characters app significantly improves the usability of the app, upgrading the Unicode support from something like Unicode 9 all the way to Unicode 14.
The new version also removes the horizontal lines that the emoji are resting on. I think the UI is better without those lines.
Comment
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GNOME Characters 42 still doesn't support emoji modifiers and sequences which is a really big omission for an emoji app. There is a merge proposal for version 43 and it may be worth a major SRU for 22.04 LTS later.
Other UI comments
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The sidebar has switched to monochrome symbolic icons instead of fullcolor.
It looks like the selection highlight color is gray instead of the Ubuntu color scheme. (I'm referring to Smileys & Emotion in the sidebar.)
Why This Wasn't Done Sooner
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GNOME Characters 42 switches from GTK3 to GTK4 and libadwaita. libadwaita did not support Ubuntu 22.04's color schemes until a patch was uploaded to 22.04 today.
Risks and Mitigation
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This version is already present in Debian Testing without new reported bugs.
Both Ubuntu and Ubuntu Budgie includes this app by default.
The app is standalone and does not impact other apps. We could revert if there were a major bug discovered.
Changes
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https:/
gnome-characters (42.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release
- Supports Unicode 14
- Support for Emoji Sequences and Modifiers is planned
for the 43 release
* Drop all patches: applied in new release
* Switch to gtk4 and libadwaita instead of gtk3 and libhandy
* debian/control.in: Switch from gnome-desktop 3 to gnome-desktop 4
* debian/control.in: Drop obsolete Build-Depends on libunistring
-- Jeremy Bicha Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:36:05 -0400
Logs
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Build:
https:/
Install:
$ sudo apt install ./gnome-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'gnome-characters' instead of './gnome-
The following additional packages will be installed:
gir1.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.
The following packages will be upgraded:
gnome-characters
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Selecting previously unselected package gir1.2-
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Preparing to unpack .../gir1.
Unpacking gir1.2-
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Unpacking gnome-characters (42.0-1) over (41.0-4) ...
Setting up gir1.2-
Setting up gnome-characters (42.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
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| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #1 |
| fossfreedom (fossfreedom) wrote | #3 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-characters (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in gnome-characters (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → New |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in gnome-characters (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
From a Ubuntu Budgie point of view, the new libadwaita app looks out of place in our distro with adwaita's ghastly dark brown colouration. With a GTK_THEME based override the headerbar looks broken with our default theme (i.e. we would have used this to suggest this type of workaround for folk that wants to use a non libadwaita theme).
However - we will not die in a ditch on this. If Ubuntu really wants this then we would request that "ubuntu-