avatars in gaim

Bug #50773 reported by Daniel Lombraña González
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pidgin (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The other day I have updated my avatar in Gnome, at the application: About me, and suddenly I have an idea: why gaim doen't get the avatar for each protocol (msn, yahoo, etc) from the image I have set in About me?

The idea is simplify the handles of avatars. It could be a good feature.

This feature will only work with the protocols that enable use avatars.

What do you think?

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Luke Schierer (lschiere) wrote :

While it should be possible, it is not the sort of thing we react strongly in favor of upstream. We value our independance from gnome. If this icon can be pulled without linking against gnome (as the proxy settings or the browser stuff can be) then it is possible we would accept it in that form.

There are issues though, how to control it (as some gnome users would want different icons for different accounts) being the biggest of them.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking as a feature request

Changed in gaim:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Jo Vermeulen (jozilla) wrote :

At least Gaim could set the default directory for choosing an avatar to /usr/share/pixmaps/faces/. Gnome's about dialog defaults to this directory when choosing an avatar.

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote :

This has been fixed for Pidgin 2.0.0. We now use ~/.face by default, if it exists.

Changed in gaim:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because according to Richard comments the bug has been fixed in Pidgin 2.0.0 version which is already available in Ubuntu Gutsy, thanks for your report.

Changed in pidgin:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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