[Bug 1059928] Re: Lightdm [Kubuntu) not displaying user thumbnail photos

[Harald Sitter]

the liblightdm-gobject library recommends accountsservice (thus
installed by default) and that particular piece of art provides one icon
path through its api (the default one --- default is $HOME/.face whereas
kde software uses $HOME/.face.icon). accountsservice would have a user-
defined icon too, though since the kde software in question does not use
accountsservice that is utterly moot as nothing is set there (hence why
the default is returned).

I am not sure this ought to be changed in accountsservice as I gather
the point of it is to form a grand unified middleware piece to use for
all that magic, not support things from the past. though the solution
there would simply be to check if .face.icon is present and prefer that
as default.

perhaps more reasonable would be to have lightdm check if the file
returned by accountsservice is actually present and if not try
.face.icon.

that is something to be discussed with the individual upstreams though.

PS: lightdm's fallback lookup code actually does it right -.-
PPS: both solutions are not particularly adequate in scenarios where a user is using gnome based environments and kde based environments as with either approach presented above one side is getting preference over the other. something that is only going to be fixed when and if kde switches to accountsservice. funny that it was not even suggested for adoption over in kde land yet.

** Package changed: lightdm-kde (Ubuntu) => lightdm (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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