On 2010-03-12, at 10:59, Soft Linden wrote: > Porting the desired parts of the old UI forward to 2.x would be a lot > easier than porting ongoing 2.x features backward to 1.3. I wouldn't > be surprised if you found there were just a couple dialogs you really > wanted back. Bring the old communicate window back and embed the > sidebar items in stand-alone floaters? You might even be able to get > the latter part into Snowglobe if it's minimally invasive and done as > a preference option.
The only thing that worries me about this approach is that there's a lot of fine-tuning in the UI details of the old interface, like the focus behavior of the chat bar, that seem to be hard to make work consistently moving forward without a lot of hacking... based on how easily it seems to be to break it. This isn't just a feature, it's an all-over behavior. Here's things I consider pretty much key: * chat bar focus * chat bar size * simple chat overlay (single background element, no badges, etc) * Location *on title bar* so you can get rid of the browser-style bars * IMs in a window. REALY in a window. * chat bar on chat floater * No sidebar What have I missed? _______________________________________________ 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
