[Bug 301354] [Request] Gridview / avatar-only mode

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301354

--- Comment #9 from Daniele E. Domenichelli <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> That indeed rises the chances of hitting a valid gravatar, but I'm pretty
> confident that none of my ordinary friends actually knows of this service (I
> didn't myself until I asked I think you last year). So using gravatar is
> possible, but the reliability is imho ~23%.

I'm not saying this is "the way" to retrieve the avatar, but it might be a way
retrieve some of them...


> > it is quite likely that you will get duplicates.
> 
> That's true. Doing another quick test with my list of 99 people, I'd have ~5
> duplicates with one having 4 duplicates (four people with MH initials),
> though only 3 people (of all duplicates) don't have avatars. Even without it
> still gives you rough idea of who that might be (while for example the
> identicon is just a big set of triangles, which is way harder to recognize
> than name initials; also keep in mind we're talking roughly about 16x16
> pixels).

Identicon is "coloured triangles", having a random coloured background (either
using identicon or a random colour) with initials on the foreground could be an
almost unique avatar

If you want a "grid" view 16x16 is way too small, imo the avatar should be at
least 48x48


> > Which initials are you going to use if your contact doesn't set both the avatar and the name?
> He has to has at least a username. So for "mck182", you'd see "M".

This still fails for ICQ contacts, moreover having just 1 letter increases a
lot the chance of duplicates

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.