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How do you disable user icons?

sheffieldbleepsheffieldbleep
edited February 2008 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
How do/can you disable user icons in vanilla? I'm using the default theme. Cheers
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  • FyorlFyorl
    Perhaps giving a default role icon of a blank image would accomplish that.
  • DanielDaniel
    By editing some theme-files?
  • WandererWanderer
    I'm sure it's in the vanilla.css file, set to display:none maybe?
  • dan39dan39 New
    uh, none of the suggestions above are good ways to turn off the icons because the users will still see an option to activate the icons from their Profile page.
  • squirrelsquirrel
    Fyorl is right, setting the icon of the "Member" role to a blank image will override any icons that members specify in their Profile pages.
  • FyorlFyorl
    @dan39: Users still see an option to add an icon even if Role Icons are set. So you have exactly the same problem if you set any type of default role icon, not just a blank one.
  • sheffieldbleepsheffieldbleep
    edited January 2008
    Found it; to disable icons you need to edit the code in the 'account_identity_form.php' ps tell me if this is bad practice but it takes the ability to add icons away so *thumbs up*
  • WandererWanderer
    It's only "bad practice" because you have edited a core file and will probably need to do it again when Vanilla is updated.

    Maybe some clever person is able to make it an extension for you?

    Posted: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 9:18PM

  • FyorlFyorl
    Why make an extension or hack a core file when you can do it without any of that?
  • WandererWanderer
    OK, so how?
  • FyorlFyorl
    edited January 2008
    By using the method I suggested in the second post of this discussion.
  • dan39dan39 New
    edited January 2008
    Doesn't that just insert an empty box next to everyone's name? That's not really a solution. sheffieldbleep's idea is better, but it has minor drawbacks. The proper way to edit account_identity_form.php is to make a new theme and edit the file within that theme to remove the preference from the account page. Of course, if you already have users who've added the icon to their profile, that won't remove their icon. You'll need to edit the comments.php file in your theme as well. Making a new theme is the best practices approach because it will make upgrading to new versions of Vanilla easier.
  • FyorlFyorl
    It is a solution as it solves the problem. It may not solve it to the extent that you imagine it should but that's not reason enough to label it as not being a solution at all.
  • squirrelsquirrel
    If the empty box is 1x1 pixel and transparent, who really gives a rat's ass?
  • ChrisGwynneChrisGwynne ✭
    But that's a dirty hack to what should be a default feature.
  • FyorlFyorl
    It's the least dirty of the hacks posted here, but yes, it probably should be a default feature.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    More appropriately, user icons shouldn't even be in the core - if you're gonna go *really* vanilla about this.
  • FyorlFyorl
    Ha, in fact, we shouldn't have whispers or categories or even profile pages.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Yeah. Whispers got taken out once but adding them as an extension slowed the thing down far too much so they went back in the core. Categories have been on the verge...
  • squirrelsquirrel
    Hold up, I'm all for "vanilla" but truly there is a minimum level of functionality that people expect from a forum out of the box.
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