As far as I am aware, the current state is this.
- Ubuntu only supports Alpha 23b in the software center.
- Ubuntu supports A24 if you use the Xtradeb PPA, or fabio's
- WFG's "official" PPA only supports 23
There are two different issues. One is font rendering. We can'use ttf fonts so we render images with all thr chars we need which might not be all the chars you use.
Second is path handling. I suppose not all our code is using UTF8 and that's creating issues wraitii might know more.
I don't particularly like the idea of fishes jumping out of water, I'd be more in favour of something like this
Maybe something analog to auras can be done