Gender & Race Options for People Icons

[Foggalong]

As mentioned in #5075, an idea I've had during hiatus is to provide race/gender options a la emojis for generic icons which use a person with visible features (i.e. not just a blob person) in their design. That doesn't mean redesigning every icon which has a face, just the generic ones like preferences-desktop-user.

This issue is to keep track of that and also discuss potential design changes which can happen along side that since the current one is also due an update.

[palob]

The lazy solution would be one skin/gender-agnostic pictogram-like design.

The problem with optional icons is how can the user select those?

[Foggalong]

I'd also be good with a pictogram design, and yeah that would also avoid complications with how to make it obvious to users that options were available :+1:

[palob]

Here comes a very simplistic approach with a multitude of colour options

[palob]

design options

[palob]

Alternatively maybe a combination with an emoji-like head as seen in the gnome-social icon.

[palob]

Or maybe a contour design as seen in the Suru Plus theme?

[palob]

Revisiting this I think those pictogram style icon look somewhat un-Numixy. The tough task is to get the existing icon gender-/race-agnostic.

[palob]

The emoji idea miiiight be viable, what do you think @Foggalong, way to go or dead end?

[palob]

Or maybe a even more simple smiley face (dot, dot, line), looking less like a real person, @Foggalong ?

[palob]

Another very lazy way of "solving" this is using a recolour of cs-user-accounts.

[palob]

Maybe grey @Foggalong so it looks even less like a real person?