Default user account icon shouldn't be bearded man

[Magni Onsoien]

I could come with a long rant about the computer field being male dominated, and
the open source/free software field being even worse. I will not do that right now.

But I would like the default icon of xscreensaver (i.e. the icon appearing next
to my user name when I have locked the screen) to be a less gendered figure than
today's bearded man. I don't find it offensive (after all, he does look a bit
like my husband), but this icon has certainly nothing to do with me and my user.
I don't have a beard and I will hopefully not have one for at least 50 years.

My suggestion is that the icon is changed to a more neutral figure. Removing the
beard [and for estetical values also the white dot on his chest] will probably
suffice.

Alternatively show no icon at all next to the username in xscreensaver (unless
the user herself has chosen one).

I promise to acknowledge you in my master thesis (you know, the one I should be
working at now...) if you fix this ;-) (I may also mention you if you don't fix
this, but then in a less positive way.)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311844: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311844

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23079.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Bug 23079 is a duplicate of a WONTFIX bug, but even if it wasn't, this wouldn't
be a duplicate of 16895, because that's about showing the photo when there is
one. This bug is about the default icon, shown when there isn't a photo. The
icon is used across Gnome and comes from the theme. Windows and OS X both manage
to have a fairly genderless generic person icon, so there's no reason Ubuntu
can't. Reopening; --> gnome-icon-theme.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311844

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed with dapper