XO avatars

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Fri Mar 30 18:26:50 EDT 2007


For mostly western faces: me thinks we'd need additional building blocks
to cover the planet.

I forget where to find the South Park tool.  For amusement, if you
haven't seen planet.freedesktop.org, do so.
               - Jim


On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:22 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Dan Williams 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 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.
> 
> 
> Now if we could get automatic South Park-ification of the face images
> taken from the camera, we could have some really cool avatars/buddy
> pictures. :)
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