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Add gnome-control-center-faces package to Odin for some handy avatars #51

Closed vjr closed 4 years ago

vjr commented 4 years ago

Request to add the gnome-control-center-faces package to the default Odin ISO installation so that there are some pixmaps available in /usr/share/pixmaps/faces to select as user avatar, I usually pick the pengiun avatar for my user account pic.

danirabbit commented 4 years ago

There's currently nowhere that these images are exposed in the UI. So if you know about this system location to load from, I'm not sure how much of an inconvenience it is to install this package yourself

vjr commented 4 years ago

Makes sense. Most people will probably set their avatar to something they download or create themselves, I guess.

ernstki commented 6 months ago

Coming from other distros and macOS, I miss having a selection of generic avatars, even if it means having to browse to /usr/share/pixmaps/faces manually. So thanks, @vjr, for cuing me in to which package those come from!

I'm not in love with seeing my stupid face staring back at me when I log into my computer, and the industry-standard colored monogram doesn't really help that much when it comes to differentiating between multiple accounts. I'll go for the puppy or the lightning bolt every time, if there's the choice.

Would it help to point the file picker for the "User Accounts" switchboard at /usr/share/pixmaps/faces by default, if it exists?

danirabbit commented 6 months ago

There's an open feature request against user accounts for stock avatar images here: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-useraccounts/issues/185