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gnome-control-center package

gnome-about-me: "No Image" sets a generic face instead of no image

Bug #156903 reported by Josh Headapohl on 2007-10-25

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I am running Ubuntu 7.10

Go to System>Preferences>About Me.

Click the picture button to select a photo.

When the file chooser opens, click the No Image button.

Observe as ~/.face is set to an image.

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Josh Headapohl (joshhead) wrote on 2007-10-25:

#1

In reality, an image. Edit (14.0 KiB, text/html)

This is what .face is set to.

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Josh Headapohl (joshhead) wrote on 2007-10-25:

#2

.face Edit (14.0 KiB, image/png)

I think there was a problem. This is the same .face file, renamed.

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Josh Headapohl (joshhead) wrote on 2007-10-25:

#3

Third time: the charm. Edit (14.0 KiB, image/svg+xml)

It is an svg image.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-02-09:

#4

Thank you for your bug report. That's the standard icon and not an image, doesn't seem to be a bug

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid

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Josh Headapohl (joshhead) wrote on 2008-02-09:

#5

gnome-screensaver with face Edit (15.0 KiB, image/png)

Hi I'd just like to confirm that this behavior is really desired. After I click "No Image", my face is set to that icon. It doesn't just show up in the About Me menu. For instance, when I am unlocking my screen saver, that picture is there. That seems odd to me.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-02-11:

#6

Why do you think that is wrong? The dialog displays the standard icon when no image is used, that looks correct

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Josh Headapohl (joshhead) wrote on 2008-02-11:

#7

gnome-screensaver without face Edit (7.2 KiB, image/png)

Before changing any About Me settings, the screen saver unlock dialog has no image at all. When I choose "No Image", a file called .face (which is an svg image, attached earlier) is created in my home directory, and it is used in the screen saver dialog. I have to delete /home/myuser/.face to really have no image again.

So the button labeled No Image actually causes an image to be created. It seems to me that it should delete /home/user/.face if present, not create it. Or that the button should say "Default" instead.

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