Difference between revisions of "Viewer Skins/Starlight"

Revision as of 15:43, 18 April 2010

By:	Hitomi Tiponi
Viewer Version:	2.0.0.203055
Information:	Starlight 2.0.5
Source:	"Starlight" skin download
Image:	"Starlight" skin to improve Viewer 2.0 usability

	Important!
	Use caution when installing these skins, as modifications to your installed software files are not officially supported by Second Life support

About

This skin is designed to give more choice, and hopefully improve the usability and promote usage of Second Life Viewer 2.0.
It consists of a number of previously published viewer tweaks - produced by various residents (see credits in the downloaded 'Read Me' file) and added to, together with a slight reskinning to give the interface a lighter feel. It should hopefully benefit those people who have no wish to edit the XML code themselves, yet wish to benefit from a number of tweaks made by other residents, without using a third-party viewer.
To download the starlight skin click on the link in the box on the right.

Major Changes to the Standard Skin

Sidebar now sliding over view of the world and reduced in size
Extended Chat Bar and Chat History
Better formatting of tabbed IM window
Several UI components made semi-transparent
"About Land" Button added to Navigation Bar
"Build" option added to the rightclick on object menu
"Grid Status", "Sky Editor" and "XStreet" options added to menu
"Map", "Mini-Map" and "Inventory" Buttons added to bottom bar
Generally lighter look and graphical/colour changes to fit in with it's Black and Orange look

Known Bugs and Issues

Only working fully with English language version of the interface

Changes to 2.0.5 from 2.0.4

Maximum size of nearby chat field doubled to 1024 as in v1.23
Hover tips settings now enabled under Advanced->Highlighting and Visibility (they were commented out in the Viewer 2 xml code so use with care)
'My Upload' added under 'Me' menu
'My Useful Features' added initially with 'Stop all Animations', 'Rebake', 'Statistics Bar' and 'Lag Meter' - but with the intention of making it easily customisable in later versions
A number of formatting and cosmetic changes

Changes to 2.0.4 from 2.0.3

Fixed bug affecting UI resizing
Changed overflow buttons on specific profiles and places to be a '+' consistent with other windows

Changes to 2.0.3 from 2.0.2

Works with Viewer 2.0.0.203055 (and also with release 202934)
Sidebar now goes behind other floaters
Build icons and progress bars now fit with colour scheme
Text that was light grey is now brighter.
Most scrollbars doubled in brightness
Added 'Sky Editor' to 'World' Menu (saves two extra clicks)
'Home' icons change reverted to Linden icons

Changes to 2.0.2 from 2.0.1

Works with release 202934 of Viewer 2.0 (available March 26th 2010)
Chat bar shortened slightly so that it doesn't suppress chiclets too much on lower resolution screens
Problem with Texture picker resolved
Viewer keeps traditional 'home' icons rather than new ones introduced in most recent release of Viewer 2.0

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 # This will create a folder called "starlight", but this folder contains another folder with the same name. It's this second nested folder you will need to drag to your Second Life Viewer 2/Resources/skins folder (explained below).
-# Find the Second Life Viewer 2 application in you Applications folder.
+# Find the Second Life Viewer 2 application in your Applications folder.
 # Right click on the Second Life Viewer 2 application icon. You will get a menu.
 # Choose "Show Package Contents" from that menu.
-# Open the "Resources" folder and scroll down until you see the "skins" folder.
+# Open the "Resources" folder, scroll down and open the "skins" folder.
-# Make sure you are not actually running Second Life Beta Viewer as you do this.
+# Make sure you are not actually running Second Life Viewer 2 as you do this.
 # Rename the "default" folder to "default_backup".
 # Drag the nested "starlight" folder (the one inside the other "starlight" folder which was created when you unzipped the file you downloaded) into the "skins" folder.