[ckan-discuss] Gravatars on CKAN

Tue Dec 6 22:48:08 GMT 2011

On 6 December 2011 19:01, Tom Rees <zephod at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Richard! I've booted a Trac ticket for this task
> - http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1528 - and pushed a solution to the repo. Not
> sure which release this will go into, but it was a simple thing to add which
> definitely makes the page look better.

Super, Tom!

I think this would have previously not been easy because of the
browser caching we were using, but that's now turned off with 1.5.1.
Does that mean we can have the user name displayed too?

Dave

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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de>
> wrote:
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>> On 21 Nov 2011, at 12:11, David Read wrote:
>> > I'm pleased to see that CKAN now links up with Gravatars, so you can
>> > see what many of our users look like!
>>
>> This is nice indeed!
>>
>> A related request for a small UI improvement: The “My Account” link in the
>> top right corner still shows the generic user icon. It would be great if the
>> Gravatar of the logged-in user could be used there as well, and the label
>> “My Account” could perhaps be replaced with the user's name. This would help
>> make it clear that you're actually logged in and that your edits will be
>> associated with that account name.
>>
>> Best,
>> Richard
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