Now you can deactivate our Avatars module and use another module, including something that would pull from Photos module. "Set as avatar" button issue is now fixed.
We don't see that we should ship Avatars that pull from Photos by default, because there may be just as many web-masters willing to use alternative Photos module, and standard Avatars as there are those who want alternative Avatars and standard Photos. Some web-masters mat choose to not have Photos installed at all. So, they see more have to be separated.
Thus you can either look/wait for an alternative Avatars module, or mask all the "kiddie-ness" by renaming Avatars into "Profile Thumbnails" and changing default set of funny faces to something like this - http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-20646154-head-people-icons.php
Go have a look at this site, which I am sure your are familiar with.
http://ustillup.com/m/photos/home/
Browse through as many pages of public photos as you like, and notice how many of the "Photos" are titled 'Avatar'. Let me know if this tells you anything. I'm really anxious to hear what you think this signals.
Well, this isn't necessarily bad - they are still "decent" photos. We've had complaints about avatars NOT going to photo albums, so there's a checkbox allowing for avatar to be copied to the Profile Photos. You may remove or uncheck that option if this bothers you. AlexT will comment on how to do it.
Wrong. This is definitely bad. The members of this site I referenced are confused. They think the avatar IS the profile photo. It's easy to understand why. After submitting the registration form, by default users are directed to the avatar upload page, and then that ridiculous "copy to profile photos" option is checked by default.. Then they have a totally different system to upload profile photos. How on earth can you NOT see that this is a confusing methodology to the average Dolphin see more site user? Using a third party photos module that handles all this much better, like IBDW's, is only a bandaid. It's one of those solutions to a problem, that changes the nature of the problem. You are left with two distinct photo systems, because you still need the Boonex photo module for other modules that rely on it for photo uploads.
You can fix all this, if it weren't for your damn stubbornness, and refusal to acknowledge this major point of confusion to members. All you have to do, is allow us to uninstall the avatar module, and allow the selection of a default profile photo that is used as an avatar. I know you can do it, because you've done it before. Remember Dolphin 6?
We don't see that we should ship Avatars that pull from Photos by default, because there may be just as many web-masters willing to use alternative Photos module, and standard Avatars as there are those who want alternative Avatars and standard Photos. Some web-masters mat choose to not have Photos installed at all. So, they see more
http://ustillup.com/m/photos/home/
Browse through as many pages of public photos as you like, and notice how many of the "Photos" are titled 'Avatar'. Let me know if this tells you anything. I'm really anxious to hear what you think this signals.