GL3.1: automatic avatar has gone away?
Created by: sroth80021
I like the 3.1 update -- very nice.
One thing I noticed, however, is that 'automatic avatar' patterns seem to have gone away -- after doing the 3.1 update, now for all the users which dont have their own custom gravatar avatars (which for us is the majority of our users), we are seeing this generic white person-shaped silhouette with a gray backgound avatar -- the URL is of the form
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b5369a260f244d78c3371c7234dec1ee?s=40&d=mm
We do have one user that has a custom avatar, and that avatar is coming through fine. This is only an issue for those users which do not have gravatars associated with their accounts.
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but it's a whole lot harder to tell which users did what in GitLab -- I definitely prefer the previous automatic avatar, if possible.
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Created by: sroth80021
Ah, I think I see the cause now. Previously, the image URL used to include &d=identicon and now it has &d=mm. This change appears to have caused the image to revert the generic white user on gray background image.
Previous link format: (GL 3.0) http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b5369a360f254d78c1370a7214deb1fe?s=40&d=identicon
By Administrator on 2012-11-23T05:12:21 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: sroth80021
I'm not sure if this was done intentionally or not, but it appears this was introduced as part of commit 949233aa -- Changed default icon for gravatar. Moved filter out of layout
one fix for this particular issue is to tweak app/helpers/application_helper.rb and modify line 39
from: "#{gravatar_prefix}.gravatar.com/avatar/#{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(user_email.downcase)}?s=#{size}&d=mm" to: "#{gravatar_prefix}.gravatar.com/avatar/#{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(user_email.downcase)}?s=#{size}&d=identicon"
By Administrator on 2012-11-23T06:21:25 (imported from GitLab)
