Viewer Skins/Starlight

By:	Hitomi Tiponi
Viewer Version:	2.0.1.203797
Information:	Starlight 2.0.7
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
• Draw Distance slider
• 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 right-click 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
• Various optional extensions

Known Bugs and Issues

• Only working fully with English language version of the interface

Changes to 2.0.7 from 2.0.6

• Debugging of minor display issue with vertical tabs and problem changing group maturity rating
• NEW optional extension to make the sidebar full-length

Changes to 2.0.6 from 2.0.5

• Works with Viewer 2.0.1.203797
• Draw Distance slider (between 32 and 512 metres) added to Navigation Bar
• Credits listed in Second Life Help floater
• NEW optional extensions:
  • Vertical IM tabs (as used by some Third Party Viewers)
  • Menu Bar is now removed by pressing 'Ctrl', 'Alt' and 'F1' - useful for machinima makers
  • 33% longer Nearby Chat field

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