Multiple default user pics

[assassinscloak]

Title:
Multiple default user pics

Area:
User pics (usage around the site)

Summary:
Make it possible to select a default user pic for specific areas of use.

Description:
I have a default user picture that represents my journal as a whole, my but I usually select a different one when making individual entries or comments.

For example I always use the same icon when posting about books and if I'm posting a f-flocked entry I like to use a different specific icon, and when just making general entries I use another icon. When commenting I tend to use yet another icon more than any other.

I think other people have similar habits and think it would make sense/be useful if we could at least set a default icon for the journal itself, a second for posting and a third for commenting, to save always having to select the icon we want and most use for each task. Though, ideally, from my point of view at least, it would be possible to associate a default icon with certain tags and filters.

Poll #2083 Multiple default user pics

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (24.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (21.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (37.8%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (16.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[noxie]

I'm not sure if I'd actually use this option, but I like the idea.

[nacbrie]

The flocked vs. public entries vs. comments sounds like a good idea, but the tags/filters thing, not so much - what if you made a flocked book entry?

[azurelunatic]

I suggest the "_keyword" mechanism for this: setting a keyword of "_support", for example, will make that userpic the one that shows up when you answer a support request. This is behavior inherited from LJ. I believe there are a few other leading-underscore keywords like that.

So you could, say, set _community, or even _communityname, or _comment.

And you'd have to set an order of precedence for these -- if I'm commenting in a community that I have a named userpic for, should I use the comment userpic or the community userpic?

[cesy]

That would be really cool.

[kaigou]

+1

[piscinarii]

This would be nice to see.

[kyrielle]

I like this.

I assume it might get documented, too, if it became official. :D

[denise]

Can you write up a separate suggestion for this?

[azurelunatic]

*salute*

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/261468.html

[ninetydegrees]

I would like to be able to use this to set a:
- default journal pic
- default community pic
- default community maintainer pic

[azurelunatic]

Another possible idea, one that accounts for tags and the possibility of multiple conditions when creating an entry better, one that possibly depends on a redesign of the update page:

Name various userpics with the name of specific communities, moods, or tags. (There's an underdocumented mood thing already, where if you have selected a mood where that mood matches an icon keyword, and have left the icon at default, on certain pages you will see the mood-keyword icon instead.)

Proposed:
When you have left the icon at default, and then chosen a (single one of these) community or tag (or mood) that matches an icon keyword, the icon autoselects -- that is to say, the keyword in the selector box changes in response to what you have picked; it does not stay at default.

When you enter more than one community/tag/mood that matches an icon keyword, you get a charming message to this effect: did you wish to pick one of the above for your icon, leave it at default, or select a completely different icon? This obviously wouldn't be much time savings for someone with 3 icons (each with only one keyword) but would be enormously helpful to someone with a Premium Paid account and multiple keywords for each.

If one wanted to replace the icon for any given community/tag/mood keyword, one would of course have to remove the keyword from the existing icon and then save that keyword to the new icon.

[ratcreature]

I would find this very annoying. I label my icons with the same keyword that are in moods and in my tags, because I use keywords like "happy" "bored" "stargate" etc also generic ones as "tv" and "reading", but I don't always pick the icon first, sometimes I pick it last to see what fits the post best, i.e. whether to go with mood or fandom or whatever. So then when I enter moods and tags it is guaranteed that the journal wouldn't know which to pick as eg I tag all my tv posts with "tv" and the fandom, both of which matches an icon, and I'd get harrassed by an annoying dialog popping up that I'd have to close that is interrupting my posting.