On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:42 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > > Is there any thought to composing the avatars from a set of components? > > Why not use the camera? > > I've worked with a "faces" mail system that tossed up a new icon whenever you > received new mail from somebody. We had a picture for everybody in the > group. (and a big collection of corporate/university logos for when the > individual wasn't in the database)
We're going to have a "buddy picture" (which in XMPP is an "avatar") for each person that will be taken by the camera on first boot. It will be changeable. It'll be available from roll-overs on each XO icon wherever you see that icon in Sugar. Dan > I forget how big they were. Google found one mention of a utility to > compress/decompress 48x48 face pictures. > > I remember being impressed at how well it worked with such a small space. > Mostly it was instant recognition with just a quick glance. There were a few > people in the group with pictures that were similar enough to cause me > troubles. For those I had to take a long look. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel