Drag and Drop avatar preview
Memaker currently does not make changing avatars as easy as it could. One nice way this could be fixed is the addition of drag / drop support. Many programs which have avatars support dragging images on to their avatar image selectors. Two programs which do this are gnome-about-me and Pidgin.
One program that supports dragging images to drop them in this way is The GIMP, with its image selector in the tool window. Notable in that one is how it seems to figure out where the image has been dropped and starts saving to there instead of the original source location. (Which is quite confusing in the case of that program, but could be a powerful feature for MeMaker!).
MeMaker could implement this drag & drop functionality with the user dragging the avatar preview. If the capability of directly manipulating features on an avatar is implemented, the handle could be moved to the side of the preview (possibly on a Frame container) rather than being the entire preview widget. By supporting drag & drop, MeMaker can have a highly integrated feel that remains completely future proof.
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Rats, I can't believe I just mixed up blueprints and bug reports. Sheesh, one is blue and the other is red! I've been spending too much time with Bugzilla :P
Sorry about the mess!
Patch submitted in Bug #191079. Possibly ugly, since this is my first shot at Drag and Drop. All eyes are welcome.
Great work. But it will have to wait until after next week. we are packaging the 1.0 now.