Sunday, August 21, 2011

Teh button

The first blog post I made for this project was about the cheese-avatar-chooser that was integrated in Empathy some time ago. Working this week at the effects window an idea bumped into my mind...
Why not have also a default images window from which to choose from?

Initially the code for avatar chooser was inspired from gnome-control-center but I only added support for setting an avatar from the camera. The first version of it looked like this:


Yesterday I managed to integrate also the um-photo-dialog from gnome-control-center. I didn't send it for review yet because I still have to clean the code. I will see what the Empathy guys have to say about it but in the meantime ...here you are a screenshot :



 

3 comments:

  1. Cool, that's something we want in Empathy since a while!

    Actually, that's even something that could be done in the Shell directly: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656628

    Anyway, we can start from Empathy and move things around later. So please, do file an Empathy bug and we'll discuss this new improvement here. :)

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  2. I am also thinking of adding a part for saving the used icons and putting them in that icon dialog... more like a history of icons you already used.

    If you are familiar with YM, they offer you the possibility to change the avatar with the one you recently used.

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  3. Having just that would be a great first start, and showing the history of previous selections would also be good. As Guillaume says, do file a bug, looks ace!

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