954228 - Twitter should set the user avatar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: Twitter, defect)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 794 at 2011-05-20 13:15:00 UTC ***

jsProtoHelper should have an overrideable function to set the buddy icon.

Currently I'm thinking for Twitter...the buddy icon should be uploaded after it's changed. Although this is somewhat debatable I suppose whether people would want their Twitter icon set by Instantbird. But that's OK. :)

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 794 at 2011-05-20 13:27:27 UTC ***

So this is possible already by observing the "user-icon-changed" event. Twitter should see this and upload the new icon still -- warping this bug to do that.

See http://log.bezut.info/instantbird/110520/#m393

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 794 at 2011-05-20 13:30:32 UTC ***

If you really want to add some helper code in jsProtoHelper for setting a buddy icon, the only thing I could see would be a function returning the binary data of the current user icon converted to a specified mime type and resized at a specified size. That would hide/share all the image manipulation code.

Comment 3

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 794 at 2012-06-30 21:06:57 UTC ***

I don't think uploading the IB avatar to twitter without asking is a good idea. What if you have multiple twitter accounts? And the very public nature of twitter compared to IM protocols means you might not want a photo of yourself there, if you have one set in IB.

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Bug 1445778 removes support for Twitter due to changes in their streaming API.