If everything will remain as it is in current implementation, layouts will be saved as several LLSD files in one folder, not in single LLSD file - it was done to allow adding of image files into layouts in future. So placing a folder into an archive and sending it by email (or other way) would be needed to share a layout. About proposed solutions- they both sound reasonable and probably may be added to the feature in future.
2011/1/18 Opensource Obscure <opensourceobsc...@gmail.com>: > Just to say this new feature looks very promising! > > A question. The 3rd note says > "the files associated with saved layouts will be LLSD text files, so you can > email or paste layouts into a notecard to share with other users". > (the note also explains why this is not the ideal behaviour ever, > and also why we have to deal with it for now) > > This sounds even cooler! ...but - how would that process of > sharing LLSD files exactly work? > I mean, where will users have to put those LLSD files? > > here is the scenario I'm thinking about: > > - a "teacher" (or mentor, friend, etc) is explaining to a new user > how to build in SL > - the teacher shares with the new user an LLSD file that contains > an ideal layout for building, and says "put this in your SL folder" > - the new user is now confused: many newbies don't know > the difference between the software folder and the settings folder, > and they don't know where those are; > this gets even worst to solve for people trying to help them, > because pathnames are different across different operating systems, > across different releases of the same o.s. - or because of localization. > > possible solutions: > - add another option in Preferences to choose the folder where we keep layouts > - add a menu command to choose a specific layout file - then the viewer > would copy that file into the actual settings folder. > > Opensource Obscure > _______________________________________________ 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
