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#12
Originally Posted by ziller View Post
Can understand that. In this case though, I personally would prefer a solution where choosing a displayed avatar from another source (unless it's the gallery) only changes it locally and doesn't sync it back to MfE.

Meaning, when I for example pick Facebook as someone's avatar, that contact is displayed only on my handset with the Facebook picture, instead of my handset copying that picture from Facebook and syncing it back to Google...
When I was involved, we tried to run this through UX people and number of complicated corner cases that they found during the session made clear that there are more issues than solutions for general public on this way, without achieving substantial improvement on usability. So this was rejected afterwards as not being simple for laymen. Probably will resurrect in next incarnations of Swipe UI, who knows...
 

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