Ubuntu MATE

User pictures (faces) are missing under: '/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/'

Bug #1385822 reported by Axel Waldheim
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Ubuntu MATE
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Bug Description

If 'System -> Preferences -> About Me', the area is clicked for the Avatar, the file selection jumps to '/home/<user>/Pictures/'.
Are the generic user pictures under '/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/' exist, but are first offered this in the file selector.
On Ubuntu 21.04, these images are in the package 'gnome-control-center-data' contain:
/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/astronaut.jpg
/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/baseball.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/faces/butterfly.png
...

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Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg) wrote :

I've added gnome-control-center-shared-data to the meta package for Trusty and Utopic. Performing a dist-upgrade will install the required packages.

Changed in ubuntu-mate:
status: New → Fix Released
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Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg) wrote :

You'll need to:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop

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