When you change your user icon from the default, you aren’t able to restore it. For me and my peers, and probably others, this is very discomforting. The original has the first initial of the username in the Application Launcher and a silhouette elsewhere. The ability to choose this in the list of user images would make more sense than never being able to access it again.
With that being said, in the Application Menu the first initial looks like it has been warped and is too thin. A fix for this would be necessary if users could restore the icon.
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The default user avatar is the third item in the picture selector.
This is the default picture:
It is not the third item in the picture selector, that would be the silhouette.
Also noticed, the first default picture KDE sets up consists of the first name letters while for the login (SDDM) it is the silhouette picture.
Only after modifying that to something else it is the same on both places.
For me that is the second item in the picture selector, except i can not get the same font color back as only black and white fonts with different background colors are available and my first “default” one (if I would want exactly that) was a green font on white background.
I didn’t even think that it could actually have been just the initials icon with SDDM using it’s own. That makes a lot of sense.
I think an icon selection right before the second selection with the other initial icons wouldn’t be too obtrusive. Maybe even having colors like the second one? That seems overkill. The color for the initials icon and its outline seem random, but I’m not sure.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I think I’ve become less productive at work because I spend so much time thinking about this. There’s a little voice just constantly in the back of my mind reminding me in a little high-pitched Alvin and the Chipmunks voice. It says, “You can’t go back to the default user icon. It’s too late.” I don’t want to bloat this thread, so is that something that should be it’s own thread?
