Suggestion for making Aylur Widgets Avatar working dynamically when user changes Avatar by GNOME settings

[D3vil0p3r]

Aylur's Widgets Dashboard, currently, for getting the Avatar image of the user, it goes to find it in the following path:

/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/<username>

where <username> is an image file.

In GNOME >=40, the folder above is empty and, for getting the Avatar working correctly, a user can create a symbolic link of the image to that path, for example by:

sudo ln -sf $HOME/.face /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/<username>

or can copy directly the avatar image there.

Currently, the Aylur Widgets does not manage the case where a GNOME user goes to Settings -> Users -> and change the avatar with a GNOME default avatar (for example "bicycle" stored on the default avatar GNOME image path in /usr/share/pixmaps/faces/), so, in this case, Aylur's Widgets still keep the old avatar instead of new one.

In GNOME >=40, the Avatar path is specified in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<username> inside the Icon variable, for example:

[User]
Session=
XSession=gnome-xorg
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/bicycle.jpg
SystemAccount=false

and Icon variable value changes according to the avatar user choice in GNOME settings, so it changes dynamically.

For making also Aylur's Widgets dashboard changing dynamically the user avatar, a good approach could be to change the following codes:

extensions/dateMenuTweaks.js

style: 'background-image: url("/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/'+ GLib.get_user_name() +'"); background-size: cover;',

extensions/quickSettingsTweaks.js

background-image: url("/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/${GLib.get_user_name()}");

shared/dashWidgets.js

background-image: url("/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/${GLib.get_user_name()}");

to call NOT /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/${GLib.get_user_name()} but extracting the Icon variable value from /var/lib/AccountsService/users/${GLib.get_user_name()} and using that string value on background-image: url.

In this manner, Aylur's Widgets dashboard avatar will change dynamically with the avatars selected by the user on GNOME Settings -> Users section.

[Aylur]

Fixed it!

[D3vil0p3r]

Thank you very much!