+1 for making it a debug setting (to choose whether you see notifications).  

The server version info would still be available in Help -> About as well as 
World -> Place Profile -> Region/Estate

On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Erin Mallory wrote:

> could even bury the option in the debug console... most people that would 
> need to turn it on would not likely keep flipping it I would think... 
> 
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:32:53 -0800
> From: os...@lindenlab.com
> To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
> 
> It does have use for people testing server. I'd say make it optional, more 
> informative, and disabled by default.
> 
> __Oskar
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Erin Mallory <angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
> to rephrase, yes I like them, thought i'd rather see them on the chat history 
> and have more detailed.  but i can live without them if the majority really 
> want to see them gone altogether.  for me it helps me during certain testing 
> and stuff to know when ive changed server versions but that's really about 
> it. 
> 
> From: angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com
> To: missannoto...@yahoo.com; q...@lindenlab.com; 
> opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:04:09 -0500
> 
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
> 
> I would also like to see the toast moved.  it can be useful and would be more 
> useful if it had the actual version.  but i would like to see it on the chat 
> history instead.  in fact... it would be nice to have an option to have ALL 
> remaining system notifications be optionally shown in chat history instead of 
> as toasts.  for one thing it would log better i think, for another...  well 
> toasts bother a rather significant portion of sl.   those with some forms of 
> epilepsy, migraines, some forms of add... to name a few...
> 
> Erin/aka Cummere
> 
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:35:01 -0800
> From: missannoto...@yahoo.com
> To: q...@lindenlab.com; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
> 
> Doesn't it add some minor overhead to region crossings? I don't care about 
> it. The message does not say what server version you just entered so it is 
> mostly an annoyance. If I need version info I know where it is. 
> 
> What I would like to see is region rating and a single letter server version 
> code on the map without having to mouse float.
> 
> From: Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q...@lindenlab.com>
> 
> Hi, folks. I've just commented on STORM-243, which requests that we have Yet 
> Another Option to allow suppression of the toast that tells you the simulator 
> version changed when you changed to a new region. 
> 
> I think we should delete it entirely. Does anyone care to still get that 
> notification, now that there are usually 3 different simulator versions live 
> on the grid at any time? I don't mean "I can think of an obscure scenario 
> when someone might care." I mean does anyone really need a notification about 
> this, or can we just delete it?
> 
> 
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