[13:42] <mgedmin> "The Color Emoji feature of GNOME 3.26 is not available in Ubuntu 17.10." :(
[13:44] <jbicha> mgedmin: it requires a new fontconfig version, an unstable release of cairo, and a color emoji font to be packaged (there isn't a font like that in Debian yet)
[13:44] <jbicha> these fonts are supported: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/tree/conf.d/45-generic.conf
[13:48] <mgedmin> thanks for the explanation!
[15:04]  * mgedmin is dying to try out gnome 3.26, but http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release still doesn't know about artful
[15:06] <jbicha> mgedmin: could you ask in #ubuntu-release what their plan is for that
[15:07] <mgedmin> I think they're probably busy actually doing the release
[15:10] <jbicha> please do ask :)
[15:13] <jbicha> before they all go to a release party or something
[15:13] <mgedmin> surely there's a big checklist somewhere?
[15:14] <mgedmin> there's no announcement email in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2017-September/thread.html either
[15:18] <jbicha> mgedmin: check October ;)
[15:19] <jbicha> the release itself is finished, some times they intentionally do wait to update the meta-release file but I haven't seen anyone ask yet
[15:20] <jbicha> to confirm whether that's intentional today
[15:25] <mgedmin> ha!  there's no october in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/, but thanks -- I would've kept refreshing the wrong page :)
[15:30] <mgedmin> annoucement is out!
[17:16] <jbicha> mgedmin: the meta-release file was updated
[17:16] <jbicha> enjoy
[19:02] <mgedmin> hey so I upgraded to 17.10 but my boot splash still has ubuntu-gnome branding
[19:04] <mgedmin> I wonder if I switched to it manually at some point in the past
[19:06]  * mgedmin apt removes plymouth-theme-ubuntu-gnome-{logo,text} to see what will happen
[19:06] <jbicha> that will work
[19:07] <jbicha> it is also possible to use update-alternatives to switch to a different plymouth theme
[19:07] <mgedmin> wouldn't it make sense to remove the ubuntu-gnome theme automatically on upgrade?  since technically "Ubuntu GNOME" no longer exists
[19:08]  * mgedmin is now googling for a way to reset the gdm look and feel to upstream
[19:09] <mgedmin> sudo update-alternatives --config gdm3.css