Mugshot 0.2.3 Released

What’s New?

Keeping in line with the previous release announcements, the following is a summary of the latest changes.

General

• Mugshot is now a Python3-only application
• Online documentation is now used instead of yelp
• GLib is now used to get environment and user settings
• Populate the Initials field based on first/last name fields
• Hide “Remove” when there is no profile image set
• SudoDialog (from Catfish) is now used for authentication
• Disable first and last name editing without sudo rights (chfn limitation)
• Stop processing updates if password is incorrectly entered
• Temporary files are now cleared on exit
• Package is now 100% PEP8-compliant
• Packaging has been simplified

AccountsService

• Sync AccountsService user image and ~/.face file
• Scale images on save to accomodate AccountsService max size

Bug Fixes

• Add option to remove current profile picture (LP: #1286897)
• Add AccountsService support to set profile picture (LP: #1273896)
• mugshot fails at attempt to change avatar (LP: #1284720)
• Fix crash with IndexError in init_user_details (LP: #1287368)
• mugshot is unable to store profile picture (LP: #1298665)
• Fixed typo that incorrectly hid the manual photo browser instead of stock
• Fixed crash when saving user details with a non-English locale

Screenshots

Getting Mugshot

Ubuntu Users

If you’re running Ubuntu 13.10, Mugshot is available from the Mugshot Stable PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mugshot-dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mugshot

If you’re running Ubuntu 14.04 or newer, Mugshot is available in the Ubuntu repositories.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mugshot

Everyone Else

If you’re running another Linux distribution, you can download the latest source package from the Mugshot downloads page.