[Pidgin] #954: Protocol avatar limitations shouldn't apply to locally set icons for other users

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#954: Protocol avatar limitations shouldn't apply to locally set icons for other
users
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  Reporter:  contyk        |       Owner:                          
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                     
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                          
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0                     
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  pidgin avatar buddy icon
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by chckens):

 I'd agree, enforcing the protocol's restrictions is unnecessary in this
 case... though allowing large images as avatars has good potential to make
 a conversation window (with buddy icon shown) unusable.

 Might be worth picking sensible maximum dimensions for avatars, and
 scaling custom avatars to this size rather than based on what the protocol
 could allow. Anything else would require work to only display thumbnails
 of the image where space matters (which to my mind is currently only
 everywhere that avatars are displayed...)

 Also, if the problem with file length errors popping up were fixed (see
 #460) I'd imagine this problem would be much less annoying.

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