User pictures

The module should support most of this already. Read up on layout and format files in the README.

Are you referring to the picture of the owner of the MySite page or the pictures of the creators of content on the MySite page?

In the case of #1, the $owner object contains everything you should need (it's identical to the $user object), and you could add the owner picture by editing the following files:

a) plugins > layouts > default.php (line 16 is a good candidate for adding a picture)
b) plugins -> layouts > columns.php

Or you could create a new layout file.

In the case of #2, we'd have to change the API for the .inc files to include the author photo. Then we'd have to rewrite the format files to print the picture where appropriate.

It's not really a bug. It's just never been requested.

Try this for a start. You'll need to do some tweaking to make it exactly as you want.

File: mysite/plugins/layouts/default.php

Line 16

    $output .= '<div class="profile">' . theme('user_picture', $owner) . l(t("%name's profile", array('%name' =>$owner->name)), 'user/' . $owner->uid) . "</div>";

There are some conditions that must be met for this to work:

1) User pictures must be enabled.
2) The user must have loaded a picture.
3) The user must be using the default MySite layout. (For the columns.php layout, change line 22 instead of line 16).
4) The user viewing the page must have 'access user profiles' permissions.

You will likely want to adjust the output to suit your design. But the code above should get you started. If you want to manipulate the image directly, access it as $owner->picture

I'm going to mark this 'by design.' I think modifying the default theme is a sufficient solution.

True, but that might also be creeping featurism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_featurism

The system was designed to have pluggable Layouts to address specific needs. I've had other user's complain about the presence of the Profile page link. The solution is either:

1) Have settings for every item on a layout.
2) Encourage people to use the API code to modify their installation.

There is a #3, which is "do #2 until I get around to #1."

New features, btw, only go into the v5 branch, so I've updated the status again.

A profile.inc has been committed to HEAD and solves this issue.

Release in 5.x.2-beta3