menu avatar placeholder image missing

[nuke-ellington]

I'm submitting a...

[x] Bug report
[ ] Feature request
[ ] Documentation issue or request

Current behavior

The ix-menu-avatar has an empty grey circle without an illustration of an avatar.

[danielleroux]

@nuke-ellington I removed the patch label, because we must also provide a solution to add custom avatar images.

[danielleroux]

@nuke-ellington is this issue fixed with #201 or do we want to implement the feature to display an image with this issue?

[nuke-ellington]

@nuke-ellington is this issue fixed with #201 or do we want to implement the feature to display an image with this issue?

@danielleroux I think we might want to take this issue to JF once again and add the image later.

[nuke-ellington]

#276

[danielleroux]

Outcome of JF. Implement first letter feature.

[sn0wcat]

IMHO the component should let the developer set up the image on his own, by just setting the link.

But, if we are already implementing some default behavior, we should probably use gravatar with fallback to two letter initials. This is what is being delivered by SiemensID in identity claim, and this will probably be the default Identity Provider for the large majority of applications which use iX.

Siemens ID delivers the gravatar image if one is configured, otherwise there is a two letter fallback to

https://i0.wp.com/cdn.auth0.com/avatars/qu.png?ssl=1

Gravatar and Fallback Image: