Feature #3332
closedFeature #2945: My Commons
Avatar logic and nested secondary avatars for activity stream
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Description
http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/attachments/download/1293/Commons-PersonalHomepage-Options-v3.pdf page 11 makes a couple assumptions about avatars:
1. When looking at your personal homepage, it's kinda redundant to show your own avatar for activity. It's much more salient to show secondary avatars as primary. This is different from the way BP's default avatar logic works. So, for example, Chris's personal home page might have an activity item "Christopher Stein edited the Doc .... in the group Foo". Instead of showing Chris's avatar, show the Foo avatar.
2. In cases where a secondary avatar is available, show it as nested at the corner of the primary avatar (as in the mockup) rather than in the activity action text.
Ray, can I ask you to think about these and have a crack at it? I know that the requirements of 1 are a bit sketchy, but I assume it won't be too hard to catalog the activity types (there are maybe 20 on the Commons?) and to decide which avatar(s) should appear in which cases. For now, let's only have these changes apply when looking at the personal homepage - we'll leave avatars alone in all other activity streams on the site.
Obviously the implementation details will depend to some extent on #3331, but I'm hoping that at least some of the work might be done independently and in parallel.
Ray, please let me know what you think. Thanks!