Add profile picture and name to main menu (with link to profile)

[georgeowell]

What's the problem you want to solved?

Further replicate existing social media user layout expectations of homepage behaviour to display profile picture and name.

Is there a solution you'd like to recommend?

• Add profile picture and name to main menu
• Profile picture and name link to own profile page when clicked
• Make rest of main menu items look nested with centre-ish alignment below that (I think that's how to describe it, see mock up)
• Remove existing "Profile" entry from the main menu

Mock up

Notes

• This will help distinguish accounts if multiple identities are implemented as mentioned in #4.
• It also adds a bit of much needed personalisation and colour to the homepage.

[jedahan]

This looks like a nice improvement to me.

Riffing off the idea, what if the profile wasn't on the top of the list, but a divider, something like:

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Thinking behind this

• what if identity wasn't the most prominent thing
• highlights the boundaries of posts in relation to identity

[cinnamon-bun]

+1 on putting it in the middle since that's where it goes on the Gradient of Intimacy as a divider between public and personal, e.g. https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/116#issuecomment-580425136

(This is an idea from the book A Pattern Language about human-centric buildings and spaces)

https://books.google.com/books?id=hwAHmktpk5IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+pattern+language&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPvKWbjZbRAhUKymMKHagTCxwQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22127%20intimacy%20gradient%22&f=false

[hng]

I've started working on this as it seems to be a good first issue. I would implement it as suggested by @jedahan

[christianbundy]

Awesome, please reach out if you bump into any problems.