[Bug 270421] avatars once selected do not get pushed on the server

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270421


Daniele E. Domenichelli <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Daniele E. Domenichelli <daniele domenichelli gmail com>  2011-10-28 12:58:21 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Can we detect which accounts support changing
> avatar? If not, then I say we limit it on the client side, so you won't be
> able to change it for fbchat, gtalk and perhaps some others.

This question should be forwarded upstream... here [1] there is the possibility
to know which mime types are supported for a protocol, an empty string could
mean that avatar cannot be set. It should be possible to override this on a
.profile but unfortunately I don't see any way to override this on the spec [2]

[1]http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/Protocol_Interface_Avatars.html
[2]http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/service-profile-v1

> But this then raises another question - what to do with the avatars? Because
> if you have three accounts (fbchat, gtalk, jabber) and you have three
> different avatars, which one do you want to see? Would a "slideshow" composed
> of these avatars be any good? Or simply stick with the current concept, ie.
> select which avatar to display in contact list?

At the moment I don't see any avatar in the contact list, and I cannot choose
any from the list.
Anyway, when I choose the avatar or the display name, I'd like to be able to
choose if set it for all the accounts, or just keep it as my locally shown
avatar, for example with a [set avatar for all the accounts] checkbox in the
dropdown menu with the avatars or something similar.

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