I guess it would make sense to handle this similar to the daytime overrides in the World>Environbment menu. I can set the time to say 'Midnight' and I can also 'Revert to Region Default' -Martin
Am 12.03.2010 um 16:33 schrieb Lear Cale: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
