The answer to all of these UI issues is simply client-side scripting. Quite literally anything and everything would be possible through user-controlled extensions, far beyond the very low-powered UI features in Viewer2.0. Both novices and experts would have been catered for, as well as everyone in between, simply because of the great flexibility of local scripts.
Instead of this, LL are working on a secret security minefield in their internal Firefly project which can't provide this kind of flexibility, and in the interim we have this unhelpful hardwired 2.0 UI being quite literally forced on us --- if we don't adopt it, we'll be "signing up for an awfully large chunk of porting work", to quote a Linden's own words. LL's relationship with the open source community has really gone off the rails recently. Morgaine. ==================================== On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Matt White <mwh...@leporidae.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Argent Stonecutter > <secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (Sorry Argent, didn't mean to reply directly to you... resending this > to the whole list.) > > > * 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? > > Bring back the old profile window. When I have a few "interesting" > people in the sim I'll open up their profile and leave it minimized. > If/when I need to start filing ARs / estate banning / etc, the correct > spelling of their name is a simple copy/paste away. > > During the "fog of war" my spelling often gets pretty poor. > > -- > Matt White / Bunny Halberd > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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