Remove all emojis (except for the operating system emojis) #88
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This pull request removes all emojis from job names, except for the operating system emojis (the Linux penguin, the macOS Apple logo, etc.).
Motivation
I think that the operating system emojis are very useful. They let you easily distinguish between different operating systems with a quick glance.
However, in my opinion, the other emojis are not very helpful. For example, the test tube emoji (🧪) is redundant, because:
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group.The downside of having these extra emojis at the beginning of job names is that they take up valuable horizontal real estate. Now that we have four top-level groups, all jobs are located in one of those four groups. When you click on a group, a pop-up box appears that shows all of the jobs in that group. Inside that pop-up box, there is not a lot of space, so job names are truncated1. So, I want to remove these unnecessary emojis from the beginnings of the job names, so that more of the actual job name can be displayed.
Footnotes
You can mouse over a job name, and the alt-text that displays will show the full job name. But this is annoying and takes more time. ↩