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wolf avatar #558

Closed emanuele45 closed 10 years ago

emanuele45 commented 11 years ago

Something to consider: the wolf avatar is Amarok's logo.

It may be fine to use it, it may be not. I would seek for an alternative, but that's just my opinion.

Alternatives always from the Oxygen pack) may be the following: applications-toys applications-education-university meeting-chair

Or: view-conversation-balloon but in a lighter shade.

Oldiesmann commented 11 years ago

I like the 3rd one. Can we add a "default avatar" feature and use that for those who haven't set one? :stuck_out_tongue:

matthew-kerle commented 11 years ago

I actually had a graphic artist design a male, female and unspecified avatar set for SMF 2.1. My plan was to implement them so even those that hadn't specified an avatar had an image. Maybe with some settings too.

I would vote the first one out of those four. Or the third.

Kindred-999 commented 10 years ago

I agree that either a generic male/female (determined at registration, if gender is turned on?) or the man in a bowler from above. Either way, this does need ot be addressed and I agree - either implement the default avatar mod or our own variation so that a user who has not chosen an avatar gets one. That being said: For a good UX, this needs to be switchable and settable... some sites may not want the default avatar or may want to easily specfiy their own default (without overwriting files). So, an interface, like the default avatar mod would be helpful (if no custom default is used, and default avatar is turned on, use the predefined defaultavatar.png)

Arantor commented 10 years ago

So am I right in thinking that there are two separate matters here? One: we need to remove one of the existing avatars, two: default avatars for users without avatars.

The first seems easy enough, the second... hmm.

Kindred-999 commented 10 years ago

yes. Two separate matters. :P

Arantor commented 10 years ago

I'm going to close this issue and start a new one about default icons.