Automatically generate avatars based on initials

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Automatically generate avatars based on initials #6400

Open kolaente opened 5 years ago

kolaente commented 5 years ago

From the discussion on discourd, it would be nice if there was a way to let Gitea generate avatars for profiles based on the label like this one:

Possible ways to solve this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38299930/how-to-add-a-simple-text-label-to-an-image-in-go https://github.com/holys/initials-avatar

cc @mrsdizzie

techknowlogick commented 5 years ago

If we are thinking of adding new options to create different avatars I've actually ported a few avatar generation libs to golang that could also be used as well (perhaps in config there would be a setting to choose from a list of libraries for default avatars):

src.techknowlogick.com/monster-id
src.techknowlogick.com/wavatars
src.techknowlogick.com/retricon
src.techknowlogick.com/mysteryperson-id

mrsdizzie commented 5 years ago

An initials based one would be a good/better default for now if you have a preferred existing library to use. I think adding a more solid default first and then focus on providing alternative options would be good and happy to help with that if necessary

kolaente commented 5 years ago

@mrsdizzie yes, but maybe it's a good idea to implement it in a way so we can extend it easily afterwards.

0x5c commented 5 years ago

As a user, that does happen to prefer the current behaviour, this definitely needs to be configurable. I can definitely see why one would prefer avatars based on initials though.