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[Brice Terzaghi <939819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if this is the place to report this but I'm currently
developing a lightdm webkit theme and have problems with user pics.

In the original theme, user pic is displayed but there is a bug if the
user has no pic (i.e. no ~/.face file) : rather than displaying the
stock person icon, it displays the webkit missing file icon.

This comes from the fact that the code checks if user.image.length is >
0, assuming that if the file exists, length will be > 0 and it will be =
0 if the file doesn't exists. Well, that's wrong: user.image is a string
("/home/username/.face") which is sent back by LightDM (or the LightDM
WebKit engine specifically? I have no experience with other greeters or
LightDM in general) even if the file doesn't exist. So the theme always
thinks a ~/.face file exists, even if it's not the case.

Either this is a bug in the LightDM webkit engine (maybe it should send
back an empty string for user.image if ~/.face or ~/.face.icon doesn't
exists?) or it's not and in that case the existence of the file has to
be tested through JavaScript (which is not an easy task, although it
might be possible with the new File API of HTML 5).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939819

Title:
  Webkit greeter lacks an User Pic support.

Status in LightDM GTK+ Greeter:
  New
Status in LightDM Webkit Greeter:
  New

Bug description:
  Why don't we put an user pic nearby the account selection area? I
  think it's a good idea to focus better the selected user, together
  with the wallpaper transition effect.

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