diff --git a/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/files/plasma-desktop-5.19.5-force-emojier-use-color-emoji-font.patch b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/files/plasma-desktop-5.19.5-force-emojier-use-color-emoji-font.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..69f33cb402e8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/files/plasma-desktop-5.19.5-force-emojier-use-color-emoji-font.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From e7cb58f156a240c70c085be38a12e2a01dc5ede6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Guo Yunhe <i@guoyunhe.me>
+Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:12:08 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Force Emojier using color emoji font
+
+---
+ applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/emojier/ui/CategoryPage.qml | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/emojier/ui/CategoryPage.qml b/applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/emojier/ui/CategoryPage.qml
+index 858cbd935..e7198156b 100644
+--- a/applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/emojier/ui/CategoryPage.qml
++++ b/applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/emojier/ui/CategoryPage.qml
+@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ Kirigami.ScrollablePage
+         delegate: MouseArea {
+             QQC2.Label {
+                 font.pointSize: 25
++                font.family: 'emoji' // Avoid monochrome fonts like DejaVu Sans
+                 fontSizeMode: model.display.length > 5 ? Text.Fit : Text.FixedSize
+                 minimumPointSize: 10
+                 text: model.display
+-- 
+GitLab
+
diff --git a/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml
index 52f99fa25fe2e..49d2b2bec6af6 100644
--- a/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml
+++ b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/metadata.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 		<name>Gentoo KDE Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
+		<flag name="emoji">Build emojipicker applet using <pkg>app-i18n/ibus</pkg> and <pkg>media-fonts/noto-emoji</pkg></flag>
 		<flag name="ibus">Use ibus input method via <pkg>app-i18n/ibus</pkg></flag>
 		<flag name="scim">Enable applets that use <pkg>app-i18n/scim</pkg></flag>
 	</use>
diff --git a/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-5.19.5.ebuild b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-5.19.5.ebuild
index 6b5dc7ffb4121..da3b4ac5fc3f6 100644
--- a/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-5.19.5.ebuild
+++ b/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop-5.19.5.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI+=" https://dev.gentoo.org/~asturm/distfiles/${XORGHDRS}.tar.xz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2" # TODO: CHECK
 SLOT="5"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
-IUSE="+fontconfig ibus scim +semantic-desktop"
+IUSE="emoji +fontconfig ibus scim +semantic-desktop"
 
 COMMON_DEPEND="
 	>=dev-qt/qtconcurrent-${QTMIN}:5
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ COMMON_DEPEND="
 	x11-libs/libXi
 	x11-libs/libxcb[xkb]
 	x11-libs/libxkbfile
+	emoji? (
+		app-i18n/ibus[emoji]
+		dev-libs/glib:2
+		media-fonts/noto-emoji
+	)
 	fontconfig? (
 		media-libs/fontconfig
 		media-libs/freetype
@@ -116,6 +121,7 @@ RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 
 PATCHES=(
 	"${WORKDIR}/${XORGHDRS}/override-include-dirs.patch" # downstream patch
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-force-emojier-use-color-emoji-font.patch"
 )
 
 src_prepare() {
@@ -137,7 +143,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		$(cmake_use_find_package scim SCIM)
 		$(cmake_use_find_package semantic-desktop KF5Baloo)
 	)
-	if ! use ibus; then
+	if ! use emoji && ! use ibus; then
 		mycmakeargs+=( -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_IBus=ON )
 	fi