201090 - add UI to addressbook card dialog to allow the user to pick a url (file, or http) for people buddy icons

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement)

Description

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add UI to addressbook card dialog to allow the user to pick a url (file, or
http) for people buddy icons.

it would have to save the icon into the right place, with the right name.

see http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/buddyicons.html

<profile home>/NIM/<value of pref aim.session.screenname>/picture/<screenname
for card>.gif

(note, gif is not necessary, any image type should work.)

Comment 1

[Suresh]

note that the size of the image that is used in NIM is restricted to 7168 bytes. 

Comment 2

[Andrew Perry]

I had been considering adding a bug for ability to change the file-place format of
<profile home>/NIM/<value of pref aim.session.screenname>/picture/<screenname
for card>.gif to something that is USER-DEFINED in prefs.js somewhere 
... but if you allow me to choose a file via a URL or a local file that would
give me even more control ... BONUS! 

I will contain my comments to this bug and not open any new bugs regarding this
features.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420