Re: Plasma 5.20.4: System Preferences -> User Management: User image does not change.

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

Hi

On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, luca.pedrielli wrote:
> It seems that sddm looks for avatar in ~/.face.icon or in
> /usr/share/sddm/faces (you can change it

Hmm, according to https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/683 this icons of
AccountsService should be available since sometime in 2018 ...
And sddm hasn't changed in this respect I think, and the former
user-manager also used AccountsService. 

Checking the source of sddm:
                const QString userFace = QStringLiteral("%1/.face.icon").arg(user->homeDir);
                const QString systemFace = QStringLiteral("%1/%2.face.icon").arg(facesDir).arg(user->name);
                QString accountsServiceFace = QStringLiteral("/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/%1").arg(user->name);

                if (QFile::exists(userFace))
                    user->icon = QStringLiteral("file://%1").arg(userFace);
                else if (QFile::exists(accountsServiceFace))
                    user->icon = accountsServiceFace;
                else if (QFile::exists(systemFace))
                    user->icon = QStringLiteral("file://%1").arg(systemFace);

so it checks
- ~/.face.icon
- sddm face dir/$USER.face.icon
- /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/$USER

So changes *should* show up ...

I am a bit puzzled.

Norbert

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