empty buddy icon by default

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: pidgin

The default buddy icon in pidgin is blank. Instead it should be the one that the user choose in gnome's "personal info"

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

This is the current behavior in Hardy Heron Alpha 1 (and maybe Gutsy Gibbon). What version are you experiencing this problem?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I mean that ~/.face should be connected to the buddy icon in pidgin.
Currently I'm using hardy and pidgin 1:2.2.2-1ubuntu1 and this does not happen

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

I know what you mean. It's odd this happens for me an not for you... Have you changed any default settings?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

So, if you change tyour personal image does the system chage it for pidgin too?

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Odd, i've changed my image and pidgin hasn't updated it. I guess it only does it initially. I may have to reinstall hardy to see if that is truly the behavior. Till then, I'll mark this bug as confirmed?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

ok.
I did a test. I removed my .purple directory to see what happens the
first time I start pidgin. I can confirm it puts the face you've
chosen.
Maybe this bug could be closed, and we can open another one called
"pidgin does not update the buddy icon when the image is changed from
gnome's personal information"

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

continuing here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/174444