Identicon Generator for Object Lead Images

1 Initial Problem

Uploading individual images for each object is tedious. 

2 Conceptual Summary

Offering an attractive, off-the-shelf image would be very helpful. 

Yvonne Seiler of University of Berne has taken the time to identify the following options: 

1. Look at the Output of Tanglify and look at the git liveliness
2. Look at the Output of Triangles and look at the github triangle page

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• List GUIs
• Settings-tabs

3.2 User Interface Details

Lead images will be replaced by automatically created pictures. 

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

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6 Funding

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7 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 20 DEC 2017: Unfortunately, the provided information about this feature is not sufficient to make me decide upon it. It would be great to know more about the following topics:

• Does this request wants to replace all object icons by icons generated through Identicon?
• Is using generated icons a general setting for each installation?
• Can one define if a generated icon is used per object type, per repository branch or per object itself?
• How is this feature related to custom icons in categories, courses and groups?
• Does the author/admin/tutor has any control over the selected icon provided by Identicon (e.g. asking for another one)?
• Is there a way to influence the colour scheme of the icons provided by Identicon (e.g. using the colours of the CD of an institution)?

Killing, Alexander [alex], 20 Dec 2017: This feature seems to depend on another feature that allows to upload lead images in objects at all. This should be linked somewhere.

Both libraries listed above are Javascript and seem to come with node dependecies. I would neither build these images in node nor in the browser. Since both are also not very mature libs I would vote for porting the first one (which seems to be much smaller) to PHP.

8 Implementation

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