954329 - Aspect ratio not preserved when setting large image as user icon

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Contacts window, enhancement)

Description

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 896 at 2011-07-05 20:58:00 UTC ***

I witnessed someone setting a 1021x1421 pixel jpeg image as his user icon and it resulted in a square icon.

The aspect ratio should be preserved.

Comment 1

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 896 by Michael <Prescience500 AT gmail.com> at 2011-07-06 23:24:11 UTC ***

I'm experiencing the same thing on Linux.

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 896 at 2011-07-07 11:08:34 UTC ***

How this possibly an enhancement request? In my opinion it's broken and a "regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances" qualifies as bug with severity "normal".

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 896 at 2011-11-06 23:43:22 UTC ***

According to flo the code SHOULD be trying to keep the aspect ratio (see [1] which calls [2]). It's possible the libpurple code just sucks at trying to keep an aspect ratio, but it shouldn't be a very difficult equation.

Is the issue that the ratio is not preserved when set for the accounts or in the UI which shows your own icon?

[1] http://lxr.instantbird.org/instantbird/source/purple/purplexpcom/src/purpleAccount.cpp#961
[2] http://lxr.instantbird.org/instantbird/source/purple/libpurple/buddyicon.c#1314

Comment 5

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 896 at 2011-11-07 10:34:31 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is the issue that the ratio is not preserved when set for the accounts or in
I'll check the case for which I reported this later since the contact in question is currently not online (the icons don't seem to be used when someone is offline -> do we have/need a bug for this?)

> the UI which shows your own icon?
Problem occurs at least here, I've checked that myself.

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.