Edit Profile Icon to match account
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Recently, I set up a new profile on Vivalid for my wife and set "manage profiles" to show on startup.
I was surprised to find it does not pickup my custom icon from my profile, but more so that I also can't upload one.The 'edit' options are "rename" (which I changed from 'person 1) and select an icon from the generic ones available - eww..
I know... piddly things, but I much prefer my own, lol.
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Is there a way to upload a custom icon here?
Even if I have to edit somewhere in the profile so that my "logged in" icon is the same as the selection page?!
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@xr3y6rs Hi, use this option:
Or even better - enable Vivaldi Sync to have the icon sync from your community avatar.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/sync/ -
Hrmmm, I cannot find that screen.
Perhaps because I'm using Linux and a snapshot?
This is what I get after clicking 'edit' from the drop down menu in the profile selection screen:
I can select the generic avatar or a stock one but not add.
@Pathduck said in Edit Profile Icon to match account:Or even better - enable Vivaldi Sync to have the icon sync from your community avatar.
@xr3y6rs said:
I was surprised to find it does not pickup my custom icon from my profile, but more so that I also can't upload one.
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@xr3y6rs I kind of thought it would be apparent from the screenshot, but you need to click the profile icon top right, then the profile name.
The "Manage Profiles" UI is not actually Vivaldi but Chromium base, so more limited.
I was surprised to find it does not pickup my custom icon from my profile, but more so that I also can't upload one.
Did you actually sign in to Vivaldi Sync first? Vivaldi does not sign you in to Sync just because you sign in to the forum/mail. Check your Settings > Sync. Are you signed in and do you see the profile icon?
Vivaldi is not Chrome
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Yes, I'm logged into sync, but I think I see where we are missing each other.
I have already created her profile and want to customize it, which I can't seem to do after profile creation.
Clicking my avatar -> Manage Profiles ->Add Profile... will produce the selection screen you show above.
But otherwise, clicking on my profile icon opens the drop-down shown above, and clicking her profile just opens a new window with her profile (and custom avatar). There is no way to edit it from that point.
So it seems the only way to customize this is to start anew, and upload her icon a second time, but damned if I know where it is...
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@xr3y6rs So her profile is not logged into Sync?`
Then open it and click this:
I get it's not easy to understand it's a button that can be clicked, I guess the > is a hint.
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Yes, she is logged in with sync. We both are, and have been from the start.
I will do a screen capture and put up a link so you can see what I am talking about but I'm in the middle of finals atm, so it will be a few days. -
I made a snippet to help with explanation.
https://rumble.com/v4gf4wr-vivaldi-profiles.html
It demonstrates that both profiles are logged in and show their custom icons uploaded to vivaldi.net.
and that the profile folder stored locally does not capture them from vivaldi.net but that custom icons can be uploaded to the local folder to match the one stored online.What I cannot find, is a way to edit the locally stored icon once I've made a mess of it (as I did) without trashing one or the other profiles and startiing anew.
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@xr3y6rs Your Casper06/Cassandra user does not have a custom icon uploaded:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/user/casper06
(note that I'm not sure if this is the same user, if they've never actually used the forum, don't know how this works...)But I can kind of see the problem. No idea what you've done, might have to start a fresh. Or try logging out and in again. No idea.
Once a profile is connected to Sync there's no way that I know to change the icon. It will always be the Vivaldi Net profile icon.
EDIT: Looks like if a profile icon is updated with Sync the other profiles don't actually know about the update and continue showing the standard/custom avatar. Might be a bug in there somewhere...
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Ya... dunno what to tell you but there it is... been that way for some time.
Going to https://forum.vivaldi.net/user/xr3y6rs shows my image though. Dunno why that is either. I set them both up.
If I help uncover a bug, I'm a happy guy. Love this browser. Want to see it used everywhere. I would rather set up another profile for Vivaldi than a new user on the pc so I'll try from scratch again to see what happened..
I don't know how workable this might be vis a vis privacy issues etc., but...
IMO, if a user has a profile at vivaldi.net, then the local profile folder should adopt the vivaldi.net icon (custom or not) the moment they log into sync. If not/then not.
That icon/username should then remain consistent in the selection dialoge no matter the profile being used. -
@xr3y6rs Logout of forum and re-login and updated image will show.
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Ok... got it figured. I purged the profile folder, began again and the behavior has changed. Somewhat. Here are some instructions if they ever become useful.
I purged the package, deleted the profile folder, then reinstalled. Renaming would likely work just as well.
Onboarded, then I edited the generic icon and name, and then logged into sync - added accounts, calendars, etc...
Staying logged in, I clicked 'manage profile' > 'add profile' and edited a new profile with an image and name.
Hitting enter opened a new window in the new profile with the onboarding screen.
I went through the process there, as above, finally logging into sync, et voila!!I can now also edit a current profile if I click anywhere on the space beside the 'Log In' button in the manage profile dropdown. I could not do this before.
So, the lesson is.... two year old profiles have grey hair and an attitude...
Something was missing that a purge fixed. It took about 10 minutes to wipe and renew, but now it's "as expected" and that is a bulls-eye in my books.
