Allow members to control their own hackergotchi

[chckens]

Hackergotchis are currently displayed on Member profile pages and on Planet. Allowing members to upload their own (restricted to sensible dimensions) would be a good idea.

These could also appear as forum avatars.

[chckens]

Might be worth investigating storing pictures in LDAP, because an avatar set from the website which shows up automagically in places on SUCS desktops (e.g. gnome-screensaver "locked" dialog) would be extra-awesome.

[chckens]

OK, forget LDAP cause the GNOME stuff doesn't actually work with it.

The correct way to do this is to store the user's picture in ~/.face as that's where gnome-screensaver and friends look for a picture.

Having a GDM theme with a face browser would be pretty cool too, but I'm not sure if that works for anything but local users.

[chckens]

Replying to chckens:

Having a GDM theme with a face browser would be pretty cool too, but I'm not sure if that works for anything but local users.

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317745 seems to suggest that the .face files wouldn't be picked up by GDM. There is the possibility of putting $USER.png in a specific directory, but if NFS mounts don't work here either this could necessitate maintaining copies of user pictures on all of our desktops.