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[15:01]  Squirrel Wood: Hello Benjamin ^^
Transcript of [[User:Benjamin_Linden|Benjamin Linden]]'s office hours:
[15:01]  You: hi guys :-)
 
[15:01]  You: how is everyone?
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[15:01]  You: I guess we're still waiting for folks to show up from open source?
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[15:01]  Squirrel Wood: tired :)
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[15:02]  Squirrel Wood: there weren't that many attending the open source meeting as the agenda was rather empty
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[15:02]  Squirrel Wood: In the meantime, http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08011703.html ^^
| style="white-space:normal;"|Hello Benjamin ^^
[15:03]  Jacek Antonelli: Heya
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[15:03]  You: hi Jacek
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[15:04]  You: we were just talking about that login progress screen issue again, Jacek
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[15:04]  You: :-)
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[15:04]  Jacek Antonelli: Yeah? I've made some good progress on that
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[15:06]  Jacek Antonelli: Right now the two big issues are: it's being drawn as red for some reason, like it's forgetting the green and blue channels when it loads the texture;
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[15:06]  Jacek Antonelli: and also, I'm not sure how to get it to stretch to fill the screen
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[15:06]  Jacek Antonelli: In the C code, it's being defined as 2/3rds of the screen width
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[15:06]  You: oh that's outstanding news, Jacek!
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|I guess we're still waiting for folks to show up from open source?
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| Squirrel Wood:
| style="white-space:normal;"|tired :)
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| Squirrel Wood:
| style="white-space:normal;"|there weren't that many attending the open source meeting as the agenda was rather empty
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| Squirrel Wood:
| style="white-space:normal;"|In the meantime, http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08011703.html ^^
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|Heya
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|hi Jacek
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|we were just talking about that login progress screen issue again, Jacek
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|:-)
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|Yeah? I've made some good progress on that
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|Right now the two big issues are: it's being drawn as red for some reason, like it's forgetting the green and blue channels when it loads the texture;
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|and also, I'm not sure how to get it to stretch to fill the screen
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|In the C code, it's being defined as 2/3rds of the screen width
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|oh that's outstanding news, Jacek!
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|which part can't you get to fill the screen?
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|the progress bar itself?
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|or the overall window
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| Benjamin Linden:
| style="white-space:normal;"|I actually think we don't need it to stretch
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|Overall. Even centered would be good, but I'm not quite sure how to do that
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| Jacek Antonelli:
| style="white-space:normal;"|In a resolution-independent way
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Latest revision as of 17:02, 4 April 2008

Transcript of Benjamin Linden's office hours:

[15:01] Squirrel Wood: Hello Benjamin ^^
[15:01] Benjamin Linden: hi guys :-)
[15:01] Benjamin Linden: how is everyone?
[15:01] Benjamin Linden: I guess we're still waiting for folks to show up from open source?
[15:01] Squirrel Wood: tired :)
[15:02] Squirrel Wood: there weren't that many attending the open source meeting as the agenda was rather empty
[15:02] Squirrel Wood: In the meantime, http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08011703.html ^^
[15:03] Jacek Antonelli: Heya
[15:03] Benjamin Linden: hi Jacek
[15:04] Benjamin Linden: we were just talking about that login progress screen issue again, Jacek
[15:04] Benjamin Linden: :-)
[15:04] Jacek Antonelli: Yeah? I've made some good progress on that
[15:06] Jacek Antonelli: Right now the two big issues are: it's being drawn as red for some reason, like it's forgetting the green and blue channels when it loads the texture;
[15:06] Jacek Antonelli: and also, I'm not sure how to get it to stretch to fill the screen
[15:06] Jacek Antonelli: In the C code, it's being defined as 2/3rds of the screen width
[15:06] Benjamin Linden: oh that's outstanding news, Jacek!
[15:07] Benjamin Linden: which part can't you get to fill the screen?
[15:07] Benjamin Linden: the progress bar itself?
[15:07] Benjamin Linden: or the overall window
[15:07] Benjamin Linden: I actually think we don't need it to stretch
[15:07] Jacek Antonelli: Overall. Even centered would be good, but I'm not quite sure how to do that
[15:08] Jacek Antonelli: In a resolution-independent way
[15:08] Squirrel Wood: source code or xml wise?
[15:08] Benjamin Linden: because on large monitors it gets too big
[15:09] Benjamin Linden: I see, so you're not sure how to determine the middle of the screen?
[15:09] Squirrel Wood: => table width 100%, center align. then define whatever needed as percentage of the available space => auto-stretch
[15:09] Benjamin Linden: welcome Harleen
[15:09] Squirrel Wood: can even be done using css
[15:09] Jacek Antonelli: That would be nice, Squirrel. But this is XUI :\
[15:10] Benjamin Linden: lol
[15:10] Benjamin Linden: I was like, isn't that web code?
[15:10] Squirrel Wood: ^^
[15:10] Jacek Antonelli: I'm not sure it even understands percents... I tried putting width="66%" and it drew it 66 pixels wide
[15:10] Benjamin Linden: yeah I don't think it does
[15:10] Benjamin Linden: XUI is very poorly documented :-(
[15:11] Jacek Antonelli: There's a halign="center" attribute that I've seen used for text, but I'm not sure if widgets are supposed to respect that, or only text
[15:11] Squirrel Wood: http://www.xoetrope.com/zone/intro.php?zone=XUI
[15:11] Squirrel Wood: that one ?
[15:11] Benjamin Linden: hi Alice!
[15:11] aliceinwire Bleac: hello! :)
[15:12] Jacek Antonelli: Squirrel: Nope, LL's homegrown XML User Interface files
[15:12] Squirrel Wood: humm
[15:12] aliceinwire Bleac: sorry i'm afk for compiling mail with the list of new mentor
[15:12] aliceinwire Bleac: hello!
[15:12] Jacek Antonelli: Hi alice!
[15:12] Squirrel Wood: http://docs.xuiframework.com/index.jsp ? ^^
[15:12] Benjamin Linden: haha no this is a different XUI, Squirrel
[15:12] Benjamin Linden: our XUI has very little documentation
[15:13] Squirrel Wood: then do what the gridmonkeys do ^^
[15:13] Squirrel Wood: beat on it till it works ^^
[15:13] Benjamin Linden: although to be fair, a couple of our devs are starting to do some class reference
[15:13] Jacek Antonelli: lol
[15:13] Jacek Antonelli: I don't suppose there's a DTD for XUI lying around anywhere at LL, is there...? >_>
[15:13] Benjamin Linden: oh I forgot about follow
[15:13] Benjamin Linden: do you know about follow=left|right, Jacek?
[15:14] Jacek Antonelli: I tried that, didn't seem to work, but I'll hammer on it
[15:14] Benjamin Linden: this was the suggestion I got from Richard Linden:
[15:14] Benjamin Linden: attach it to the root view with the appropriate follows flags
[15:15] Squirrel Wood: Just found.... http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/
[15:15] Benjamin Linden: I'm not sure if that helps at all
[15:16] Jacek Antonelli: *nod* Well, as I have it right now, there's a panel with some child widgets, text and a progress_bar
[15:16] Jacek Antonelli: Basically I took the existing "progress view" and split it up into the panel and widget
[15:17] Jacek Antonelli: The panel is getting stretched to the full screen, but the widgets stay in place. I think.
[15:17] Benjamin Linden: the widgets are already centered though, right?
[15:18] Jacek Antonelli: Right now they're manually positioned to be centered. And at 800x600, they'd be centered correctly
[15:18] Jacek Antonelli: *pulls up the XUI and some code to check her facts*
[15:19] Malbers Linden: hi all.
[15:19] Jacek Antonelli: heya Malbers!
[15:19] McCabe Maxsted: ahoy malbers
[15:19] Squirrel Wood: Hello Malbers :)
[15:19] Benjamin Linden: hey Malbers
[15:19] Benjamin Linden: oh hi McCabe, I didn't see you sneak in
[15:19] aliceinwire Bleac: hello! malbers
[15:19] McCabe Maxsted is ninja :)
[15:19] Benjamin Linden: Jacek, Richard also suggested this:
[15:19] Benjamin Linden: I think I understand what she's asking [15:16] richard: if you want an element to stay centered, but of fixed size [15:17] richard: (as opposed to growing and shrinking with the window) [15:17] richard: you can either do it with code, or use layout_stacks [15:17] richard: to create a grid
[15:20] Benjamin Linden: layout_stack is a new XUI layout control
[15:20] Jacek Antonelli: ahh
[15:20] Benjamin Linden: so you might not be familair with it
[15:20] Benjamin Linden: we use it in the communicate window, to slide open the participant list
[15:20] Jacek Antonelli: I saw it lying around as I was sniffing through the code, hehe
[15:20] Benjamin Linden: yeah you may want to experiment with that
[15:20] Jacek Antonelli: okay
[15:21] Jacek Antonelli: Other than the layout issues and the weird colors on my client, it's just about there
[15:22] Jacek Antonelli: The text displays and changes as expected, and the progress bar fills up
[15:22] Benjamin Linden: great, I'm very excited to hear that!
[15:22] McCabe Maxsted: you're creating a home brew, jacek?
[15:22] Benjamin Linden: Malbers, Jacek is working on the login progress screen we were discussing
[15:22] Malbers Linden: Nice!
[15:22] Benjamin Linden: I asked Jacek to expose the login progress screen to XML so we could style it to be more attractive and legible
[15:23] Jacek Antonelli: McCabe: I'm going to submit a patch to get it into the official viewer, when I'm done
[15:23] Malbers Linden: hench the talk of layout issues
[15:23] Jacek Antonelli: yep
[15:23] McCabe Maxsted: ahhh, that's grand. I look forward to seeing it :)
[15:23] Squirrel Wood: \o/
[15:24] Squirrel Wood: \o/ .....
[15:24] Jacek Antonelli: McCabe: If I do everything right, you won't even notice the difference ^_^ at least until the Dazzle team makes it purty
[15:24] Benjamin Linden: soon, hopefully!
[15:25] Benjamin Linden: we're looking to have a Dazzle First Look out in a few weeks
[15:25] Benjamin Linden: very excited
[15:25] Jacek Antonelli: \o/
[15:25] Squirrel Wood: combined with windlight ?
[15:25] McCabe Maxsted: oooh
[15:25] Benjamin Linden: it's come a long way since the early preview files
[15:25] Benjamin Linden: I'm not sure if it will have windlight in it since windlight will be merging with release about the same time we create the first look
[15:25] Jacek Antonelli: Oooo ^_^
[15:25] Benjamin Linden: it's just a matter of timing
[15:26] Jacek Antonelli: I tried to update my working copy to the latest first look with the newfangled login page, but I could never get the login page to work :( Had to revert back to the 1.18.5 series
[15:27] aliceinwire Bleac: that's cool
[15:27] Benjamin Linden: ah yes, the new login screen
[15:27] Benjamin Linden: that caused quite a few headaches
[15:27] McCabe Maxsted: well, that should be okay; the html login is being reverted in the next viewer if I read right
[15:27] Jacek Antonelli: I was glad to hear it's going away (for now, until the wrinkles are ironed out)
[15:27] aliceinwire Bleac: you have to delete
[15:27] aliceinwire Bleac: it
[15:27] aliceinwire Bleac: than reinstall
[15:27] Squirrel Wood: html login takes about half a minute to load for me on average
[15:27] Benjamin Linden: yes, I think it was the right decision to postpone
[15:28] Benjamin Linden: so now that we have a few more folks here I wanted to throw out a topic for conversation
[15:28] Jacek Antonelli: (*sniffs at layout_stack* Mmmm, min_width and auto_resize. Just what the doctor ordered, I think.)
[15:28] Benjamin Linden: one of the projects we're going to work on this quarter (at least get designed) is an improved system for accessing and managing landmarks
[15:29] aliceinwire Bleac: that's a cool stuff
[15:29] Jacek Antonelli: \o/ Favorites list plz? :D
[15:29] Benjamin Linden: so I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about how you use Landmarks and Picks today, and get a sense for what you'd like to see improved
[15:29] aliceinwire Bleac: favorites list is in the misty tools
[15:29] Benjamin Linden: what's the misty tools, Alice?
[15:29] Squirrel Wood: I hardly ever use landmarks
[15:29] McCabe Maxsted: it's a hud
[15:30] Benjamin Linden: ah ok
[15:30] aliceinwire Bleac: yes make by mistical cookie
[15:30] Benjamin Linden: why don't you use Landmarks Squirrel?
[15:30] Squirrel Wood: because it is a pain in the behind to keep them current
[15:30] aliceinwire Bleac: and you have a list of recent place you have see with landmark
[15:30] aliceinwire Bleac: and a favorite list
[15:30] aliceinwire Bleac: i have all i need here
[15:30] Squirrel Wood: so what I would like to see is a way to "verify" if a landmark is still valid
[15:31] aliceinwire Bleac: is free for mentors
[15:31] McCabe Maxsted: the biggest problem I have witih landmarks is finding the one I'm looking for. I have a folder of 200 LMs and often I forget to go back and rename them all with keywords. A favorites list would be very nice. So would a teleport history
[15:31] aliceinwire Bleac: you can make folder
[15:31] Jacek Antonelli: Personally, I have a handful of places that I visit quite often. Home, fave hangout, store, the dock where I start sailing. Some of them I put in my picks so I have them handy
[15:31] Squirrel Wood: you can make folders, yes. but they won't help
[15:31] Benjamin Linden: I was just about to ask, can't you make a folder called "favorites"?
[15:31] aliceinwire Bleac: teleport history is implemented in the misty tool
[15:31] aliceinwire Bleac: yep
[15:31] McCabe Maxsted: I tried using folders, but no they don't help; it's easier to have one long list, that way you can look at places and think, "okay I visted there after here" and narrow down an LM
[15:31] Benjamin Linden: what functionality is missing from using folders
[15:32] aliceinwire Bleac: i have a folder called linden office
[15:32] aliceinwire Bleac: _:P
[15:32] Benjamin Linden: so you use the color of the landmark to tell if you've visited that place, McCabe?
[15:32] Squirrel Wood: when you open the map window there is a landmark dropdown "My landmarks" - all your landmarks show up there alphabetically sorted - regardless of your organizational attempts in your inventory...
[15:32] McCabe Maxsted: I use the sim name; are the colors significant? I've never noticed
[15:33] Jacek Antonelli: they're a duller color before you use them the first time
[15:33] Jacek Antonelli: It took me a while to figure that out, hehe
[15:33] McCabe Maxsted: huh; I always thought it was just a color change between versions and they were older LMs
[15:34] McCabe Maxsted: which seems rather silly now that I think about it
[15:34] Benjamin Linden: hmm, maybe we should rethink those colors
[15:34] Benjamin Linden: in dazzle I think the color change is a bit more prominent
[15:35] Jacek Antonelli: One thing that frustrates me is that every single landmark in my inventory clutters up the pull-down on the map window
[15:35] Jacek Antonelli: Buy something from a store? It usually has a LM in it --> more clutter
[15:35] Jacek Antonelli: the type-ahead search helps there, but I've given up any hope of finding what I need by scrolling through
[15:36] Benjamin Linden: so any landmark in your inventory gets added to that dropdown in Map?
[15:36] Jacek Antonelli: yep
[15:36] Squirrel Wood: correct
[15:36] Jacek Antonelli: Even duplicates
[15:36] Benjamin Linden: yikes I could see how that would be annoying
[15:36] Benjamin Linden: hi Stephany!
[15:36] Squirrel Wood: Hello Stephany!
[15:36] Jacek Antonelli: Hi Stephany!
[15:36] McCabe Maxsted: hehe same here jacek; I havefar too many duplicates
[15:36] aliceinwire Bleac: welcome stephany
[15:36] Benjamin Linden: Stephany is the PM on the Landmarks project
[15:36] Stephany Linden: hi everyone!
[15:36] Stephany Linden: thanks for coming
[15:36] aliceinwire Bleac: oh cool
[15:36] Benjamin Linden: she's here to listen to your thoughts on Landmarks
[15:36] Jacek Antonelli: I must have 200 different landmarks that show up on that menu
[15:37] Malbers Linden: oooo, hi stephany
[15:37] Stephany Linden: Yes - PLEASE tell me about landmarks :)
[15:37] Benjamin Linden: I'll give her the transcript for what we discussed already
[15:37] McCabe Maxsted: it would be nice if we could rename an LM while we create it
[15:37] Stephany Linden: and how to make them much much better
[15:37] Benjamin Linden: how do you generally go about creating new landmarks?
[15:37] Squirrel Wood: landmarks? I just have way too many of 'em ^^
[15:38] McCabe Maxsted: generally I find a place I want to visit, I tp there, create an LM, then rename it if it's not memorable
[15:38] Ruby Scissor: I'm...on a table
[15:38] Squirrel Wood: Me, I hardly ever create landmarks as I usually know my places and mapstalking friends does the rest
[15:38] Jacek Antonelli: I use World -> Create Landmark Here. ... Is there another way to make a LM?
[15:38] Benjamin Linden: McCabe when you say "create a landmark", specifically how?
[15:38] Benjamin Linden: are you doing it from the menus?
[15:38] McCabe Maxsted: world, create LM
[15:38] Benjamin Linden: ok
[15:39] Benjamin Linden: do others have different methods for creating landmarks?
[15:39] Jacek Antonelli: Creating a landmark from the map would be nice. Instead of having to TP there, then make a landmark, then TP back to where you were
[15:39] Benjamin Linden: or ways you wish you *could* create a landmark?
[15:39] Benjamin Linden: good suggestion Jacek
[15:39] McCabe Maxsted: is there one? I know you used to be able to create a landmark from the map but that was cut due to database load
[15:39] aliceinwire Bleac: we can make a tool for export landmarks in a note with all the slurl
[15:40] Jacek Antonelli: Yeah, it's tricky because technically some parcels could disable the ability to create a landmark
[15:40] aliceinwire Bleac: can helping who whant put lot of landmarks in here site
[15:40] Squirrel Wood: landmark://Beaumont/152/163/46/Benjamins-Office
[15:40] McCabe Maxsted: a favorites list in our profile, where we could drag an LM into a slot, say; that would be really nice; the current use of picks to store lists of LMs and friends feels very kludgy
[15:40] Benjamin Linden: Sorry, Alice, I'm not quite following
[15:41] Benjamin Linden: yes, I'd like to talk about the relationship between landmarks and picks
[15:41] Jacek Antonelli: I think she wants a way to export a list of LMs as SLURLs, so you can post them on the web or wherever
[15:41] Benjamin Linden: ah I see, is that right Alice? so you'd like to see your landmarks on the web?
[15:41] aliceinwire Bleac: yes
[15:42] McCabe Maxsted: ah I made a short script that does that, but it only works on non renamed lms. Do you want it alice?
[15:42] Jacek Antonelli: Sometimes I like to put SLURLs on my blog
[15:42] Stephany Linden: I'm interested in what everyone thinks about finding things online when the client is or is not open
[15:42] Stephany Linden: and any differences, new things, etc. you might like to see there
[15:42] Benjamin Linden: would it be useful to be able to manage your bookmarks at secondlife.com?
[15:43] McCabe Maxsted: I do a lot of my exploring through blogs, stephany, so slurls are quite handy for me
[15:43] aliceinwire Bleac: or a widget for a site that give the slurl of last place you have see
[15:43] Dru Yokosuka: hey guys
[15:43] Jacek Antonelli: hiya Dru
[15:43] McCabe Maxsted: hmm; if they were accompanied by bookmarks in profiles, then yes, but the profile should really be key. There's a higih demand for bookmarks in profiles, as you can probably tell from looking at everyone's profile here
[15:43] Stephany Linden: hi dru
[15:43] aliceinwire Bleac: have more interaction web <> LM
[15:44] Dru Yokosuka: whats going on here?
[15:44] McCabe Maxsted: we're talkign about landmarks dru, and ways to improve them
[15:44] Benjamin Linden: so you'd like to see the Picks feature expanded?
[15:44] Jacek Antonelli: Idea: if you could drag a LM to your picks to make a new Pick, that would be pretty darn handy
[15:44] McCabe Maxsted nods. It really would be
[15:44] Benjamin Linden: I think McCabe suggested that earlier too, Jacek
[15:44] Benjamin Linden: I like it
[15:45] Benjamin Linden: what if you could just pick an arbitrary set of your landmarks and say, share these with my friends, or share with everyone?
[15:45] McCabe Maxsted: I'd like to seperate teh picks tab into two tabs: one for people, and the other for places
[15:45] aliceinwire Bleac: yes
[15:45] Stephany Linden: nice
[15:45] aliceinwire Bleac: i ahave think it too
[15:45] McCabe Maxsted: how do you mean benjamin?
[15:45] aliceinwire Bleac: but i have not say how do it
[15:45] aliceinwire Bleac: maybe share a folder?
[15:46] aliceinwire Bleac: with other friends
[15:46] Benjamin Linden: right now we have this separate notion of Picks and Landmarks
[15:46] Roof Doors: Dru Yokosuka is at the door.
[15:46] Roof Doors: Dru Yokosuka is at the door.
[15:46] Benjamin Linden: but they're very similar
[15:46] Benjamin Linden: what if we could figure out a way to combine the functionality of both
[15:46] Benjamin Linden: a "best of both worlds" kind of scenario
[15:46] aliceinwire Bleac: i think w can add the possibilty to share folder with friends can be a cool stuff
[15:47] Jacek Antonelli: Yes, similar in some ways. Although people use Picks in a lot of different ways. Lots of people make a pick with a picture of their friends, and say nice things about them there. In those cases, the "location" of the pick is irrelevant
[15:47] Stephany Linden: in other words, how would you feel if picks and landmarks were combined in some way?
[15:47] Stephany Linden: ah
[15:47] Benjamin Linden: this social use of picks is interesting
[15:47] Benjamin Linden: are they linking to that person's place?
[15:47] McCabe Maxsted: so say, a folder in your inv you drag LMs to, that shows up in your profile in a picks style format? Is that what you mean?
[15:47] Benjamin Linden: and using it as sort of a public "friend's list"?
[15:47] aliceinwire Bleac: that's cool too
[15:47] Jacek Antonelli: Sometimes, Benjamin. I think usually it ends up being "wherever I was when I created the pick", they just don't care about the location
[15:48] McCabe Maxsted: it depends on the pick though; a lot of people use picks to store locations
[15:48] Benjamin Linden: oh so the picture is what ties it to the person?
[15:48] Jacek Antonelli: So yeah, those entries are a public friends list sort of thing
[15:48] McCabe Maxsted: especially store owners and people who own land
[15:48] aliceinwire Bleac: share a all folder with all things isnide
[15:48] aliceinwire Bleac: landmark
[15:48] Jacek Antonelli: Yeah, they name it after the person, or a nickname, "My Sweetie" or something. And then put a picture and some nice text about the person
[15:48] aliceinwire Bleac: object
[15:48] aliceinwire Bleac: notecard
[15:48] McCabe Maxsted: hehe yeah
[15:48] aliceinwire Bleac: with friends
[15:48] Benjamin Linden: McCabe the folder idea you suggested would be one approach
[15:49] McCabe Maxsted: look at my picks for some funny quotes, too
[15:49] Jacek Antonelli: I could see the "Picks" being expanded into a "Favorites" list with different categories
[15:49] Jacek Antonelli: Places, people, things
[15:49] Stephany Linden: so what could make picks or the profiles better?
[15:49] Stephany Linden: more fun, etc.
[15:49] Benjamin Linden: Jacek, would you still want a separate list of Landmarks that's just for you?
[15:50] Benjamin Linden: something besides this public list of "favorites"?
[15:50] Jacek Antonelli: Hrmm. Probably, yes. Like, if you have a "Secret getaway", you probably want to have the landmark handy, but not really share it with the world
[15:50] Benjamin Linden: right ok
[15:50] Jacek Antonelli: So maybe the favorites could have the "Share: (no one|friend|everyone)" like you suggested before
[15:51] McCabe Maxsted nods. I like that approach
[15:51] Benjamin Linden: does anyone have thoughts about Stephany's question
[15:51] Benjamin Linden: how can we make picks more fun?
[15:51] Benjamin Linden: encourage people to use the more?
[15:51] McCabe Maxsted: hmm, right now people use them a lot like Myspace;s top 8
[15:52] Squirrel Wood: make them acorn shaped ;)
[15:52] McCabe Maxsted: (wtih accompanying drama when you remove someon from your picks, hehe)
[15:52] Benjamin Linden: lol
[15:52] Benjamin Linden: interesting, McCabe
[15:52] McCabe Maxsted: so changing the layout to say a series of stacked images, like myspace, might be a thought
[15:53] Jacek Antonelli: Hrmm. Maybe if you could see all your friend's picks in one place. But... then you get into the issue of what is a "friend"? Some people have thousands of people on their "Friends List". Business associates, acquaintences that they haven't talked to in a year, etc.
[15:53] Benjamin Linden: how do you feel about using Inventory to manage your landmarks?
[15:54] Squirrel Wood: regarding friends and the friend list... I'd like to see names displayed in different colors depending on how long ago the person last logged in..... makes cleaning up that list a lot easier ^^
[15:54] Jacek Antonelli: hehe
[15:55] McCabe Maxsted: honestly? Using the inventory feels like waging a war. It's easier for LMs than other items, I suppose, because they're always saved in one folder, but if there's an easier way I'd definitely be for it
[15:55] Stephany Linden: an easier way for landmarks or all inventory in general?
[15:55] Benjamin Linden: we've talked a fair bit about sharing Landmarks with others but I'd like to know more about using Landmarks to get around SL
[15:55] Squirrel Wood: Mayhaps store landmarks client side?
[15:56] Benjamin Linden: do you use Landmarks to get to frequently visited places?
[15:56] Malbers Linden: Squirrel, what would it buy your to store them client side
[15:56] McCabe Maxsted: I'd prefer all inventory but let's stick to landmarks. I use my lms to visit frequent places, yes, definitely
[15:56] Jacek Antonelli: I think a folder of "favorite landmarks" could be useful, allows nested folders (stores, hangouts, friend's homes) however the person wants to organize it
[15:56] Jacek Antonelli: But, opening up the inventory to find a landmark is... suboptimal
[15:57] Benjamin Linden: is it convenient to go into Inventory to TP to a landmark location or could there be an easier way
[15:57] Benjamin Linden: ah, Jacek beat me to it :-)
[15:57] Squirrel Wood: Hmm
[15:57] Benjamin Linden: can you think of other ideas besides Inventory?
[15:57] Benjamin Linden: for accessing landmarks
[15:57] Jacek Antonelli: As much as I hate to add more to the already-crowded top menu... I think a "Favorite Landmarks" menu would get a *lot* of use
[15:57] Squirrel Wood: How about doing the same with landmarks as with gestures?
[15:57] Squirrel Wood: only active ones show up in drop down lists and such
[15:57] Benjamin Linden: a separate window, Squirrel?
[15:57] Jacek Antonelli: Heck, for that matter -- favorite outfits, too!
[15:58] McCabe Maxsted: woah; that's an awesome idea, squirrel
[15:58] Benjamin Linden: ah, have an "active Landmarks" concept
[15:58] McCabe Maxsted: that would be a really useful feature to have
[15:58] Squirrel Wood: either only show active ones or show active ones on top of the list
[15:58] Harleen Gretzky: I already nest folders under my Landmarks folder to make favorites and home LMs on top
[15:59] McCabe Maxsted: we wouldn't have to sort through all the ones on the map, and could keep a list of favorites for ourselves for easy tping
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: Harleen, would you like to see a more direct way to access Landmarks?
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: besides going into inventory?
[15:59] Harleen Gretzky: sure
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: ok great, well folks this has been very informative
[15:59] Squirrel Wood: ^^
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: Stephany and I have another meeting to run to
[15:59] Jacek Antonelli: :)
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: but I'd like to continue this discussion next week
[15:59] Stephany Linden: yes please!
[15:59] McCabe Maxsted: always enjoy these types of discussions :)
[15:59] Jacek Antonelli: Hehe. Scurry scurry, little Lindens. :D
[15:59] McCabe Maxsted: I'll try to make it
[15:59] Squirrel Wood: meetings...
[15:59] Benjamin Linden: I think there's a lot more things to explore here
[16:00] Jacek Antonelli: Yes, was a very interesting discussion
[16:00] Stephany Linden: "back to grid house"
[16:00] Stephany Linden: thank you so muhc
[16:00] Benjamin Linden: thanks so much for sharing!
[16:00] aliceinwire Bleac: bye bye
[16:00] Harleen Gretzky: tc Benjamin, Malbers and Stephany
[16:00] Stephany Linden: see you all next week
[16:00] Jacek Antonelli: Take care!
[16:00] aliceinwire Bleac: thanks you
[16:00] Benjamin Linden: see you all next week!