Topic: Implemented Enhancement: Gravatar support refinements
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Should Gravatar support (personal icon shared between various services on the web, such as wordpresse.com) be enabled by default?
With Kete 1.2 comes the addition of Gravatar support (which as the summary states, is a personal icon shared between various services on the web, see gravatar.com). But should this be enabled by default?
Will it confuse people if their account suddenly gets an image popping up in their comments?
And where would be the best location to indicate Kete has support for that service to the users? Perhaps on signup, account edit, FAQ, or a note in the User Manual topic in Help basket?
Most services which use Gravatar assume the user knows what is it and only do troubleshooting documentation (like Github for example).
Best ways to handle this?
UPDATE:
- gravatar support was implemented for Kete 1.2
- it remains off by default
- the proposed refinements were implemented to make the functionality clearer to the user
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on May 26th, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Walter McGinnis
said Re: where to indicate it is available
I propose that we add an indication on the signup/profile edit form next to the email field. We should do a dynamic update (AJAX) based on what the user enters for their email address and display it to the right.
When gravatar support is enabled, but there is no matching image for their email, there should be a message under the blank "no avatar" icon that lets the user know that they may register at gravatar.com to get one.
Other ideas?
UPDATE: this has been implemented.
Tags: gravatar, avatar, user portraits