[[!tag wishlist]]
It would be nice if ikiwiki, particularly [[plugins/comments]]
-supported user avatar icons. I was considering adding a directive for this,
-as designed below.
+(but also, ideally, recentchanges) supported user avatar icons.
-However, there is no *good* service for mapping openids to avatars --
-openavatar has many issues, including not supporting delegated openids, and
-after trying it, I don't trust it to push users toward.
-Perhaps instead ikiwiki could get the email address from the openid
-provider, though I think the perl openid modules don't support the openid
-2.x feature that allows that.
+> Update: Done for comments, but not for anything else, and the directive
+> below would be a nice addition. --[[Joey]]
-At the moment, working on this doesn't feel like a good use of my time.
---[[Joey]]
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-The directive displays a small avatar image for a user. Pass it the
-email address, openid, or wiki username of the user.
+Idea is to add a directive that displays a small avatar image for a user.
+Pass it a user's the email address, openid, username, or the md5 hash
+of their email address:
\[[!avatar user@example.com]]
\[[!avatar http://joey.kitenet.net/]]
\[[!avatar user]]
+ \[[!avatar hash]]
-The avatars are provided by various sites. For email addresses, it uses a
-[gravatar](http://gravatar.com/). For openid,
-[openavatar](http://www.openvatar.com/) is used. For a wiki username, the
-user's email address is looked up and the gravatar for that user is
-displayed. (Of course, the user has to have filled in their email address
-on their Preferences page for that to work.)
+These directives can then be hand-inserted onto pages, or more likely,
+included in eg, a comment post via a template.
An optional second parameter can be included, containing additional
options to pass in the