Re: [opensource-dev] Maintenance viewer promoted to 3.6.3-release

2013-08-20 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Oz, Would it be possible to do something about https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes so it is possible to tell at a glance which of these releases have made it to the release channel? Hitomi___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available h

[opensource-dev] fw: hey

2013-04-30 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
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Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm dev build

2012-10-30 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
As day 10 is approaching of the next dev viewer build being 'in progress' I am filled with anticipation at the goodies it must contain to take so long to build.  Or is it stuck again and no-one noticed? Hitomi ___ Policies and (un)subscribe informatio

Re: [opensource-dev] XUI Cleanup Project

2012-08-04 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Yes - the formatting on the xui code of the official viewer is horrific, especially the few files that have been relatively unchanged since Viewer 1. Sadly LL's own standards are so vague that many different styles actually conform to them.  I tried to standardize on my version but gave up and 

Re: [opensource-dev] Time flies - well in Snowstorm builds it does!

2012-07-02 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
It is in the latest Snowstorm build Oz - http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/integration_viewer-development/rev/261018/index.html From: Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) To: Hitomi Tiponi Sent: Monday, 2 July 2012, 17:51 Subject: Re

[opensource-dev] Time flies - well in Snowstorm builds it does!

2012-07-02 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I know you guys are rushing to get to your holiday but the latest Snowstorm viewer-development build (21006) is marked as completed at "03 July 2012 00:18:35 (1341271115)".  Thought you should know in case the date-stamps mess up anything in the repository. __

[opensource-dev] Resolved Issues in Release Notes not accessible

2012-05-12 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Many of the resolved issues in the recent 'Release Notes for v3.3.2 (255742) - Second Life Beta Viewer' are not accessible when you click on them.  Now that these issues are resolved would it be possible to gain access to them (as many sound quite interesting) or at least see the summaries, as t

Re: [opensource-dev] JIRA entries disappearing into closed projects? (Ricky)

2012-05-09 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
The User Experience JIRAs are hardly progressing very quickly.  Last 30 days stats show 0 issues created and 0 issues resolved. and it doesn't look like there are many people working on their issues..and the stated project lead, Richard Linden, hasn't touched an EXP JIRA entry in like...

Re: [opensource-dev] Something wrong with the viewer_dev build?

2012-04-17 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
It really is a very nice retro version though - even sees the old sidebar returning.  Maybe it is the 'nostalgia viewer'.___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies be

[opensource-dev] Something wrong with the viewer_dev build?

2012-04-17 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
The latest build is now showing as 3.1.1.254000 - is this a case of going back several months in time, or just a simple mistake?  Also we still have no details of changes or JIRAs satisfied - do you know who is looking at fixing this? ___ Policies and

Re: [opensource-dev] Change to repository usage - take note

2012-03-11 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
In the past some special projects have fed straight into viewer-beta - does this mean that all new project work will always hit viewer-development before viewer-beta? What happens with viewer-pre-beta and viewer-pre-release? Thanks.___ Policies and (u

[opensource-dev] New JIRA Maintenance project

2012-02-23 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Several hundred outstanding JIRA issues/bugs have suddenly been assigned to a new 'Maintenance' project.  Could someone please tell me what this means? ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-

Re: [opensource-dev] Inventory Patch you should integrate

2012-01-07 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Will a patch be provided for Viewer 1, and will a more general announcement be made, as not all TPV devs (or people who compile or use their own viewers) follow this list closely? > >Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:15:58 -0500 >From: "Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)" >S

Re: [opensource-dev] Is the build machine stuck?

2011-11-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
It does appear to be stuck still - it's not the first time this has happened.  Also the problem with not showing changes in the builds has still not been solved when it does complete. --- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:26:0

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer UI mode merge

2011-10-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
There is a lot of really good stuff in this release including some icons that look similar to those used in Firestorm and StarLight - so especially like them :).  Some are a bit odd, like the mini-map which I would use for a radar instead, but generally they are of a high quality. Were any non-

Re: [opensource-dev] FUI project just out

2011-10-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I also agree with Arrehn's assessment - and welcome the changes made by FUI. It is a shame that these ideas were not run past some ordinary (i.e. non-techie) users at a group such as the Viewer Evolution User Group to gauge user opinion and priorities on various issues before deciding on design

[opensource-dev] Missing details in Snowstorm development builds

2011-10-17 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I have noticed that the fields 'Changes since last good build' and 'Jiras' on the Snowtorm Viewer development build are repeatedly showing as 'None' for more than a weeknow - despite the fact that there are clearly changes and responses to JIRAs being implemented. It is quite useful to see wh

[opensource-dev] Viewer Evolution User Group Meetings

2011-09-07 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
It is now 2 months since the last of these meetings were held. When I last asked about them 7 weeks ago I was told by Trilo (thanks) that Esbee planned on restarting the meetings in the future with a greater scope. I wondered if there was a planned timescale for this yet. Thanks in advance.

[opensource-dev] Viewer Evolution User Group Meetings

2011-07-22 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Have these weekly meetings being cancelled - as they seem to have been removed from the calendar - or are LL just missing one or two? If they have been cancelled then the relevant wiki pages need to be amended. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information

Re: [opensource-dev] Basic Shaders and FPS

2011-06-29 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
That is why there are the Low-Medium-High-Ultra settings - so that people don't need to know about shaders, just that sliding the slider right makes things look better but slower. The individual settings for each standard setting (e.g. Low) could be debated, but the approach seems to work pr

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-18 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Seems to work fine Jonathan. I had no trouble with the notification lagging. >There is an updated version of the draw distance review viewer here: >http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_project-1/rev/233253/index.html >l ... > The only other tester than myself (Oz) re

Re: [opensource-dev] DD Philosophy

2011-06-17 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Please no automatic DD - there are two many variables and differing circumstances for it ever to work.  Much better to work on other ways of improving fps e.g. selective updating of avatar movement. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available h

Re: [opensource-dev] Icons for Draw distance et al

2011-06-14 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
As this has created such an interest, and ideas, amongst the community maybe LL should think of throwing the ideas for icons for new features open to the community. It looks like mesh could definitely do with a few ideas. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-13 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Yes it's possible (see attached) - but something like that says 'landscape' or 'plants' to me. From: Argent Stonecutter To: Hitomi Tiponi Cc: a...@skyhighway.com; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com Sent: Mon, 13 June, 2011 1:58:54

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-12 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
ave that symbol used for Search and also for Zoom on the World Map, and it isn't really a 'zoom' feature From: Argent Stonecutter To: Hitomi Tiponi Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com; a...@skyhighway.com Sent: Sun, 12 June, 2011 16:38:35 Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Review view

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-12 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Trouble with that is that LL already have that symbol used for Search and also for Zoom on the World Map, and it isn't really a 'zoom' feature. From: Argent Stonecutter To: Hitomi Tiponi Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com; a...@skyhighwa

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-11 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Love OO's idea of the labels - that should do a lot to offset Josh's, very reasonable, concerns. Also - maybe move it the other side of the 'Lindens' fields to show that it isn't just another audio/media setting. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe informat

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-11 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
> Guys, the whole thing with the easily accessible slider for draw distance > is really great! Inspiring, actually. It's almost enough to make me > wanna try out the v2 viewer again. i hope the feature gets back-ported to > Snowglobe v1 by someone better at that stuff than me. There is a simpli

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer - draw distance slider

2011-06-10 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Just knocked this up by modding the xml you did - see what you think Jonathan. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/5819291026_895c9231da.jpg ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please

Re: [opensource-dev] Minimum draw distance

2011-06-10 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
That's not bad :). My thoughts: * The range should start at 32 and move out further - make it jump in increments of 16 instead. * Slider should highlight when selected like with other sliders in preferences. * Replace icon with something better - and make it so that the

Re: [opensource-dev] Minimum draw distance

2011-06-07 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
On 6/6/2011 12:37 PM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > I have been working on a draw distance slider and realized this would > be a good time to have a discussion about what the lowest value you > can set your draw distance to should be. > > If you have an opinion of why it should be lowered from what it is

Re: [opensource-dev] releasenote list?

2011-06-02 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
As a side issue it seems the section 'Changes since last good build' is not opening on recent builds of Snowstorm. It was fine until a few days back - but now won't do the normal 'drop-down' thing. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available h

Re: [opensource-dev] Request for comment on these JIRA reports (Opensource Obscure)

2011-04-27 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
It was good to see some quick responses to the queries made by OO. With so much work on Viewer 2 now being carried out by teams other than Snowstorm would it be possible to produce a list of tasks being carried out? Clearly if you are planning a 'wow' feature you may want to omit that, but it

[opensource-dev] Latest Snowstorm build details seem broken

2011-04-13 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I've been trying to click on my favourite'Details for these builds' link from the Snowstorm wiki page for the last twelve hours (well not every minute obviously, even I'm not that sad), but all I am getting now is ' Build Results Pending... Architectures being built: CYGWIN Linux Darwin' I presu

Re: [opensource-dev] PO Review build

2011-03-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
STORM-250, STORM-659, STORM-971, STORM-1030, STORM-1035, STORM-1077 and VWR-0 seem OK STORM-1018 not tested STORM-1025 - works for Nearby Chat but not for IMs ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondl

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm 2.6.1 with Advanced and Basic mode

2011-03-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Oz Linden wrote: > Any hard-coded color is a bug - if you find them, please file an issue. I agree Oz - but as I have found 91 hard-coded colours in /default/xui/en/ alone I hardly felt like listing them all. I restrict myself to logging JIRAs for crashing, performance or serious usability is

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm 2.6.1 with Advanced and Basic mode

2011-03-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
>Trilo Byte wrote: >2) I agree with Hitomi's comment, this could/should have been done as a >viewer >skin implementation. Open up that door, and let the community > get more invested in using (and creating) skins for the viewer. To be fair they have enabled skinning in Viewer 2.6.0, and I am

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm 2.6.1 with Advanced and Basic mode

2011-03-16 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
that will need a bit more work. But am still pretty happy with it. ____ From: Hitomi Tiponi To: Opensource_dev Sent: Thu, 17 March, 2011 0:28:51 Subject: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm 2.6.1 with Advanced and Basic mode I agree - this is definitely a very big step in

[opensource-dev] Snowstorm 2.6.1 with Advanced and Basic mode

2011-03-16 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I agree - this is definitely a very big step in the right direction for new residents. So many good things - especially the easy destination guide. But a few observations: 1 - a shame this wasn't implemented using proper skinning instead of a hack on the code. 2 - although you can 'detach' your

Re: [opensource-dev] Review Request: Add optional range ring to the mini-map -- one centered on you with a radius of 20m to show local chat range

2011-03-11 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
i-map. From: Jonathan Welch To: Hitomi Tiponi Cc: Opensource_dev ; Ibrew Meads Sent: Fri, 11 March, 2011 20:56:18 Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Review Request: Add optional range ring to the mini-map -- one centered on you with a radius of 20m to show local chat range I

Re: [opensource-dev] Review Request: Add optional range ring to the mini-map -- one centered on you with a radius of 20m to show local chat range

2011-03-11 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:02:12 -0800 >From: Ibrew Meads >Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Review Request: Add optional range ring > to the mini-map -- one centered on you with a radius of 20m to show > local chat range >To: Jonathan Yap >Cc: Viewer >Message-ID: > >Content-Type: text/p

[opensource-dev] Changes on Snowstorm builds no longer showing up

2011-02-23 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
The last couple of Snowstorm test builds (e.g. http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/snowstorm_viewer-development/rev/221902/index.html) no longer have the 'Changes since last good build' being shown - instead it is showing 'Unknown'. Is this a bug or will it be like t

[opensource-dev] Prduct/Business Lead for Snowstorm

2011-02-09 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Is there any news on when Snowstorm will be getting a new Product/Business Lead (it is still listed as Esbee on the wiki) or who is dealing with such matters in the interim? Hitomi ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: htt

Re: [opensource-dev] "Nearby" people tab

2011-01-30 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I have been having this trouble on some sims for the last few days (using 2.5.1 Beta 2 and later). I have been trying to figure out the cause or something that may tie in the various sims it seems to happen on - but so far without luck. On other sims this works as expected. And yes - this ha

Re: [opensource-dev] Test Viewer

2011-01-27 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Useful changes :). STORM-236 - works fine STORM-348 - works fine STORM-373 - works fine STORM-465 - works fine (yay!) STORM-547 - not tested STORM-643 - works but 'panel_people.xml' is badly formatted - 5 pixels have been added to the length when adding in the minimap.

Re: [opensource-dev] from debug to prefences

2011-01-25 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I have been struggling with this on StarLight as well. My design approach was to incorporate many of the debug settings that people seemed to like while also keeping a fairly simple approach. The skill seems to be in allocating them into a sensible form - so in the end I settled for sub-tabs

Re: [opensource-dev] SOCIAL-452

2011-01-18 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
oops - apologies for adding on the entire opensource-dev mail in my last message. Forgot to cut it out. ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before po

Re: [opensource-dev] SOCIAL-452 - new size of web profile floater

2011-01-18 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
re: "SOCIAL-452 FIX Default size of Web content floater is wrong - needs to be optimized for Web profile display". I noticed this has been merged across to viewer-beta and am worried it is going to be deployed. If you do I think you will face a lot of annoyance over the now very large size of

Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-34 Test Binaries

2010-12-27 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Fair point Andrew - but I was just thinking that from a resident's point-of-view it doesn't seem that obvious when you already have the other login options in 'General' >From: Andrew Dyukov >To: Hitomi Tiponi >Cc: opensource-d

Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-34 Test Binaries

2010-12-24 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
That looks great Merov. Would suggest that the option for displaying them moves alongside the other login options in the 'General' Preferences panel as 'Privacy' was not an obvious place to look. From: "opensource-dev-requ...@lists.secondlife.com" To: open

Re: [opensource-dev] opensource-dev Digest, Vol 11, Issue 36

2010-12-15 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
>Jonathan Yap wrote: > >I wrote two programs that use settings.xml to produce this massive table: >http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Debug_Settings > >While doing this I found 4 places with duplicate entries and 1 entry that is >repeated 4 times. There is also a pair of unnecessary tags. Thanks

Re: [opensource-dev] Is there any hope of not having the sidebar cover the bottom bar?

2010-12-03 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
That appears to have been a design decision. Suggest you raise it as an issue if you feel you would like an alternative. I know that while most of my users like the shortened sidebar some still prefer the full-length bar - so it may be better as an option. Hitomi _

Re: [opensource-dev] Request for feedback - Preferences Cleanup

2010-11-04 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Thanks for the Preferences mock-up (must say that I rather like the anime look of them :)) - some really sensible stuff there. Suggestions (all currently in Debug Settings): * Chat - adjustable life and fade times for Startup, IM and Group popups - I find they are too short for me to sp

[opensource-dev] Today's new Beta Viewer

2010-11-04 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Is there a reason why 213435 seems identical to last week's 212977? Or am I missing something? ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to

Re: [opensource-dev] How is the XUI part of the interface designed?

2010-10-07 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Thanks for that Q - hadn't spotted that. I've been torturing the xml to within an inch of it's life with StarLight, including having completely re-done the profile panels. I think I have now learnt most of what can and can't be done with it -so if anybody wants to ask any questions I will be h

Re: [opensource-dev] New features in beta version of today... ?

2010-10-01 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
There isn't much there - mainly bug fixes and tidying up. Even since that release there has been very little new functionaliy. Incidentally it seems that 210676 bears little resemblance to 210670 or 210680 - maybe Esbee got fed up of all the changes that Richard Linden did to the Viewer and d

Re: [opensource-dev] Which viewer should I use as the new beta?

2010-09-25 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
> The version I have is much higher than the public release. It looks like an > update was pulled 9 hours ago from the repro, but I just downloaded this new > version a couple of hours ago. > > I am on 2.2.1 (210446) > > The official beta release appears to be 2.2.0 (210127) > > Was the release

[opensource-dev] Larger UI Question - Skinning Progress

2010-09-22 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Just some thoughts about Skinning - love the Furry bottombar btw Miss. :-) Currently I skin for Viewer 2 - see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Skins/Starlight, and also for the Viewer 2-based TPV Kirstens Viewer (as do Ginger M and Niran). I have carried out a number of xml changes an

Re: [opensource-dev] alternative design panels

2010-09-19 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
>I hope that some TPV developers provide us with alternatives to kludgily >modified, poorly designed panels for groups, profiles, inventory, etc Try looking at the StarLight skin for the viewer if you want some redesigned profile panels (and lots of other goodies) - details at http://wiki.second

[opensource-dev] (no subject)

2010-09-12 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
>I'm seeing what I believe is the same problem described in SNOW-745 in >our current development viewer. >Second Life 2.1.2 (209297) > >I added some detail to the issue description. > >It's very irritating. I think we need to do something about it (might >we be able to force Atmospheric Shaders

[opensource-dev] Viewer Issue Tracker and Product Backlog

2010-09-09 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
I was wondering what the criteria is for something to be pulled across from the issue tracker (JIRA) into the Product Backlog? Some requests for change seem to have been in the JIRA a long time and have lots of votes and don't seem to get pulled across whereas some others seem to come straight

Re: [opensource-dev] opensource-dev Digest, Vol 8, Issue 14

2010-09-04 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
Could I point out that I doubt no-one cares about this except the Lindens - so why has this change been RAISED TO CRITICAL?. I run dev, beta, current, and old versions using different icons and rarely get confused - just why is it so important (nay critical) to have a different coloured menu-

Re: [opensource-dev] SL 2.1.1: Menu entry not working

2010-08-27 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
ion bar, the control you need is 'WLEastAngle'. Let me know if you need a hand with it, or have any other questions and I'll be happy to help out. Hitomi Tiponi. ___ 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

Re: [opensource-dev] RenderVolumeLODfactor (branch from Draw Distance)

2010-08-23 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
> Actually, it would be nice if RenderVolumeLODfactor could either > persist from one version to the next (instead of getting reset with everey > new version installation), or be set based on GPU detection. > I imagine the default of 1.125 is based on "class 0" (intel integrated >graphics) > but a

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm Request: Draw Distance Slider (and other useful buttons)

2010-08-18 Thread Hitomi Tiponi
nd may use what they want. StarLight is a true example of community co-operation - for example, the 'About Land' button came from Alexandrea Fride and the draw distance slider was a modification by me of work by Avi Arrow. None of them are particularly wonderful, but they do see