More emoji system wide (especially on empathy)

I wanted a familiar set of emoji for the Empathy interface (I currently only use empathy for hangouts). The solution so far has been:

• Ancient and Noto fonts : I can't be sure how well Noto works, but I am sure that ancient font allows most of the AOSP Keyboard emoji to interface to the messenger.
• I installed a few bitmaps to: /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/

How can I get the images from Emojipedia: Google emoji set up so that I see those images in Empathy? Also would the main repos care about a package that does this?

EDIT:

Another link since emoji are understood by so few: Emoji Family

1 Answer

I doubt you could add new set instead you can have a workaround.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/gnome/16x16/emotes/

Now download the set of emoctions to this directory, so you can can override empathy icon theme on a per user basis by installing the similarly named .png icon.

Now you have to rename those icons to the same name of the default which is founded in /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/emotes.

Then all you have is to close then start again empathy and you could use the new set instead of the default one