Re: XO avatars

2007-03-31 Thread Hal Murray
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. Sounds good. But I'm picturing a screen with many

XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread William Cohen
in the neighborhood. It seems like there should be some other visual aspects to be selectable in addition to color. Are the current XO avatars just place holders? Is there any thought to composing the avatars from a set of components? -Will ___ Devel mailing

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread Hal Murray
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

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread Dan Williams
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

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On 3/30/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Mar 31, 2007, at 0:26 , Jim Gettys wrote: I forget where to find the South Park tool. http://www.sp-studio.de/ - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: XO avatars

2007-03-30 Thread MBurns
That almost gets into a Nintendo Wii-style avatar/Mii face building game. A child's actual picture, especially in a timeline as they grow, serves a very good purpose. Having said that, the South Park or comic book style is a neat game-like idea to build off of. On 3/30/07, Jim Gettys [EMAIL