-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 besides WASD i'm also already used to have to press a key before writting my chat messages and then only after i send it i can use the mvoement keys again, that is quite common in games
On 16/3/2010 20:21, Glen Canaday wrote: > Maybe it's *my* bias. I personally know of no gamers who'd use wasd who > have stayed in SL longer than a couple of months at best. > > Most of the people I have known in SL shop, go to clubs, create, RP, and > hang out, most of which requires chatting without an extra step to > switch focus. Leaving the chat bar with focus kills wasd movement, but I > can name no one who doesn't use the arrow keys for that. > > Survey? > > On 03/16/2010 07:10 PM, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: > that's new to me... > > perhaps my sample is biased due to me hanging around people with similar > interests (i do like to play computer/video games) > > On 16/3/2010 19:41, Glen Canaday wrote: > >>>> That's an annoyance I'd like to specifically target in snowglobe 2. The >>>> majority of resis in SL were never gamers so never got used to wasd >>>> movement. >>>> >>>> --GC >>>> >>>> On 03/16/2010 03:42 PM, Argent Stonecutter wrote: >>>> >>>>> OK, here's a design problem in the new viewer that maybe can be >>>>> figured out here. >>>>> >>>>> From the Jira, I missed this response to one of my comments, some >>>>> time ago. Apologies, I forgot to "watch" the item: >>>>> >>>>> From Q Linden: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Argent: the focus problem differs this time because the chat bar is >>>>>> always present; we have no mechanism to make it go away, so if we >>>>>> always gave it focus it would block normal keyboard use. Personally, >>>>>> I'm an AWSD movement person, so I actually find this works really >>>>>> well for me. It's not quite as obviously wrong as you seem to think. >>>>>> However, I understand the use case and we'll talk about it internally. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> This is exactly the same problem that we had the last two times. This >>>>> is exactly the same discussion we had the last two times. There are >>>>> many many people who never use any of the keyboard accelerators in SL, >>>>> and always have the chat bar up and in focus. The chat bar focus NEVER >>>>> goes away. For us, normal keyboard use does not involve anything the >>>>> chat bar blocks. >>>>> >>>>> So, how could this be fixed in the 2.0 viewer without causing >>>>> discombobulation? >>>>> >>>>> An option "chat bar is the default focus"? >>>>> >>>>> What would that actually break? >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkugGBEACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmXCxQCeJVXYBnJ5WX0XZT2+CKEvHhvm X3QAn1R2TeOYW2r2SZEsTEYUuPLJh+TD =1Cgy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
