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Kontalk official Android client
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Support for vCard #331

Open h-2 opened 9 years ago

h-2 commented 9 years ago

A feature-request for the backlog maybe:

This way one can get the picture and possibly further information from a person if one doesn't have that yet. Not really important, but nice to have, I think :)

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daniele-athome commented 9 years ago

vCard is not supported at the moment, but the authorization process is already covered by the normal XMPP subscription workflow.

h-2 commented 9 years ago

vCard is not supported at the moment,

I know....I originally thought about it just as a mechanism for getting pictures from contacts, where you don't have one, yet. But I don't think its very important, just a nice feature!

ameenross commented 9 years ago

Many kids will find this (not having any avatar functionality) a dealbreaker for using Kontalk as their daily chat app. Doesn't XMPP already have a solution for this? http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html

h-2 commented 9 years ago

Personally I am totally in favor of showing only pictures that are locally available and not pushing out your picture to the network. Mainly for privacy reasons, but I also think its cooler, since most of my contact pictures I took myself with the phone and it reminds me of that situation. I know that other people use the pictures in other ways (for expressing their current mood ...), but I think this is only useful if you only use the app with your buddies exclusively. This was how I used Jabber, so it was ok to set some personal, vacation picture or whatever. But since Kontalk discovers people via the phone numbers it is very likely, you will have people in the list that are not good buddies, but work colleagues, your boss.. You will not want to broadcast the same picture to them usually. E.g. for Telegram this is the case already for me, one reason I don't use a picture there.

=> Stick with local pictures, but add some "request picture" feature (so that its still up to the other person to provide one, which one, or none at all).

ameenross commented 9 years ago

I don't usually set a picture either. Having the feature does not prevent you from not using it. I find any solution other than "set your avatar here" to be over complicated and asking for problems (UX problems at the very least).

You could, however, give some form of control over who you allow to see your avatar, buried in the settings somewhere. Whatsapp does that, Kontalk could do something similar.

maxlinux2000 commented 8 years ago

And get the avatar from gravatar? The users that want an avatar, writes in a field their email address, and kontalk download the avatar. If the email field is empty no avatar will be displayed.

I think that is simple enough to implement asap