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diff --git a/doc/todo/avatar.mdwn b/doc/todo/avatar.mdwn index 91f924fa1..7fa3762da 100644 --- a/doc/todo/avatar.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/avatar.mdwn @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ It would be nice if ikiwiki, particularly [[plugins/comments]] (but also, ideally, recentchanges) supported user avatar icons. +> Update: Done for comments, but not for anything else, and the directive +> below would be a nice addition. --[[Joey]] + Idea is to add a directive that displays a small avatar image for a user. Pass it a user's the email address, openid, username, or the md5 hash of their email address: @@ -26,40 +29,3 @@ not have a gravatar, uses a cute auto-generated "wavatar" avatar. The `gravitar_options` setting in the setup file can be used to specify additional options to pass. So for example if you want to use wavatars everywhere, set it to "default=wavatar". - -The avatars are provided by various sites. For email addresses, it uses a -[gravatar](http://gravatar.com/). For a wiki username, the -user's email address is looked up and the gravatar for that user is -displayed. (Of course, the user has to have filled in their email address -on their Preferences page for that to work. Also, when the user changes -their email address in Preferences, the gravatar won't change until the -wiki is rebuilt.) - -For openid, openavatar sucked and is now dead. So we need to use an email -address instead, I guess. Problem is that the email address of a given -openid is only known when that user is logged in and making a change. -And we don't want to leak an openid user's email into a page either. -Hmm. Suppose the gravatar hash could be calculated from the email address -and embedded instead of the openid? That would work for comments, -but not if the directive were used elsewhere. - -Or, for openid, could use <http://paulisageek.com/openidavatar>. Which -works fine, but users are not likely to figure out what they need to do to -get an avatar associated with their openid. - ---- - -Alternative, not overdesigned approach: - -Modify comments plugin to have an option to display avatars. - -When posting a comment, fill in the avatarhash field in the template. -The hash is calculated from the user's email address. If the user's email -is not known, skip it. - -End. :P - ---- - -[libravatar](https://launchpad.net/libravatar) is a federated avatar -system. Young but might be the right way to get avatars eventually. |