Bug 184871

Summary:	Copying a non-local image to the faces list isn't possible
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Elias Probst <mail>
Component:	kcm_users	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.16.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.20

Description Elias Probst 2009-02-19 00:45:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

→ Systemsettings
→ About Me
→ Password & User Account
→ Click to change your image
→ Custom Image
→ Select a non-local image
→ Enable the option 'Save copy in custom faces folder for future use'
→ Click 'Open'
→ A message telling you 'You can only select local files' appears

When the option 'Save copy in custom faces folder for future use' is enabled it should be possible to select also remote images.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2015-09-26 13:31:57 UTC

Starting with Plasma 5.4 kcm_useraccount has been deprecated in favor of user-manager (you can run with kcmshell5 user_manager).

This means that unfortunately we did not get to fix your bug, sorry about that.

We encourage you to try user-manager and report any bug or improvement you may find. 

Sorry again for not fixing your bug and thanks for caring about KDE :)

Comment 2 Elias Probst 2015-09-27 21:23:54 UTC

Re-openened + re-assigned product/component, as this applies also to user-manager.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-05-21 23:27:07 UTC

This is fixed in the Plasma 5.20 rewrite. You can enter a URL right into the name field of the Open dialog and the image will be downloaded and used as the avatar, just as you would expect. Pretty nifty.