I think we're arguing over something that's a side effect of an implementation decision, not a fundamental issue of personal liberty. Windlight happens to be client side rather than server-side, even though it's more about the environment -- the created world -- than it is about personal control of the GUI's look and feel.
In any case, a lot of people will want to retain control and should be able to. I suggest that, for parcel or region control, the first time an automatically-grantable request to change WL happens, the user should see a popup which asks whether to allow it, along with a "don't ask again" checkbox. This popup would be in the form of a GUI popup rather than the permission popup. The permission popup would only be for cases where permission isn't automatically grantable. (The script would think it got permission, and this should be DOCUMENTED so it doesn't get reported as a bug.) This should satisfy most people on both sides of this fence. Most people would grant it and never worry again. Those who don't want to yield control would only have to click "no" once. And it would be a checkbox in the "View" menu somewhere, to change on a whim. Lear On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin) <mag...@matrisync.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > >> I suppose that some people do NOT want a shared experience >> and to live in their own little isolated world. Well, can't >> deny them power over their own viewer, > > Good, thank you. Because there are people who don't seem to believe in > that; that owning some parcel should give them huge rights to control > other people's viewers. > >> But may I remind you that there is ALSO no opt-in to >> ignore the music url of a parcel, and keep the one you have >> set? > > Actually *loading* the music URL *IS* an opt in, thank goodness, in > the current production viewer (and the current beta viewer behavior of > automatically willy-nilly loading of URLs is a *huge* security issue) > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
