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Transcript of Benjamin Linden's office hours:
[15:07] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm was strange first 3 times I tried RC7 it |
crashed on login, so I thought it was a failure, I very rarely ever | ||
crash and have been able to run all RC previous, but after I rebooted | ||
computer it works fine | ||
[15:07] | Malbers Linden: | A Ha! RC7 strikes! |
[15:08] | McCabe Maxsted: | wb |
[15:08] | Malbers Linden: | but i did get a nice demo of the new Ruth as all of you |
were rezzing for me. | ||
[15:08] | Squirrel Wood: | What is it with all these people stalking me? :p |
[15:08] | Simon Kline: | hehe i got dns errors whien it first started but |
then i'd click connect and it would be ok | ||
[15:08] | Squirrel Wood: | Malbers, so you too were waiting for the SL |
client to quit smoking? :p | ||
[15:08] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | Malbers: how does the new ruth look? |
[15:08] | IM: McCabe Maxsted: pst. Want to try a new skin? First | |
button's free, but the rest will cost ya | ||
[15:08] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I use OpenDNS. No DNS errors. <3 |
[15:09] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | do kid avs still look like balding
??? teenagers? |
[15:09] | McCabe Maxsted: | heh would be nice if they told you about |
flushing dns etc in the actual error | ||
[15:09] | Malbers Linden: | Caitlyn, it's kinda a green cloud or particles |
[15:10] | Tegg Bode: | It's probably the purple hair Squirell :) |
[15:10] | Malbers Linden: | there were a lot of bugs/concerns about the old Ruth |
[15:10] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | Malbers: neat! |
[15:10] | Simon Kline: | ruth provided such a laff at times |
[15:11] | Malbers Linden: | A number of cultures found it disconcerting that people |
started as naked old women. | ||
[15:11] | Squirrel Wood: | the new ruth does not look at all when you |
have particles off :p | ||
[15:11] | Jacek Antonelli: | Hey Kippie :) |
[15:11] | Simon Kline: | tho not everyone saw it like tht hehe |
[15:11] | Kippie Friedkin: | hello all :) |
[15:11] | Tegg Bode: | Yes we will need the box on the head thing back |
for comedy relief :) | ||
[15:11] | Kippie Friedkin: | hey malbers, jacek! :) |
[15:11] | Malbers Linden: | yo kippie |
[15:11] | Squirrel Wood: | A number of cultures will always fid something |
not to their liking because of some religious or political beliefs. | ||
[15:11] | Malbers Linden: | Philip was wearing a box on his head at a recent meeting |
for comic effect | ||
[15:11] | Auto-Teleport-Memory 3.0b (WEAR ME!) whispers: | |
transfer'O'tronic free memory: 9701 | ||
[15:12] | Simon Kline: | hehe |
[15:12] | Tegg Bode: | Ooooo cloudy |
[15:12] | McCabe Maxsted: | bah crashtastic |
[15:12] | Jacek Antonelli: | I like the new ruthcloud :D |
[15:13] | Squirrel Wood: | Why can't scripts use llOwnerSay for |
information such as Auto-Teleport-Memory 3.0b (WEAR ME!) whispers: | ||
transfer'O'tronic free memory: 9701 ? | ||
[15:13] | Kippie Friedkin: | ditto |
[15:13] | Jacek Antonelli: | Is purty |
[15:13] | McCabe Maxsted: | got me |
[15:13] | IM: Kippie Friedkin: Just hangin' today. I'm hooked on these
??? meetings. :) | |
[15:13] | McCabe Maxsted: | dumb scriptor; I like it because it keeps a |
handy long list | ||
[15:13] | Squirrel Wood: | ^^ |
[15:13] | IM: Kippie Friedkin: Are Stephany and Ben not comin today? | |
[15:14] | Malbers Linden: | alright all. I kinda suck since I don't have a specific |
topic today | ||
[15:14] | Malbers Linden: | anything burning a hole in people's brains? |
[15:14] | Squirrel Wood: | Benjamin late or no show today? |
[15:14] | Malbers Linden: | Hard to say for Ben |
[15:14] | IM: Kippie Friedkin: Gotcha. Seems like a common occurence :) | |
[15:14] | Malbers Linden: | I know he was planning on it but he's had all sorts of |
meetings today | ||
[15:14] | JayR Cela: | oh i just came here 2 say that Dazzle is finally |
starting to look pretty decent to me | ||
[15:15] | Malbers Linden: | JayR -- any specific changes we made make it better for
??? you? |
[15:15] | JayR Cela: | no brick throwing please :_) |
[15:15] | Jacek Antonelli: | I'm starting to not mind Dazzle so much |
either. Maybe my eye muscles are getting beefed up from all the | ||
strain ;) | ||
[15:15] | JayR Cela: | well / I liked it from the start / to be honest |
with you .......... but ....... | ||
[15:16] | Tegg Bode: | Yes I got used to dazzle ok, I can't read strreet |
signs in RL anymore but now dazzle looks fine :) | ||
[15:16] | JayR Cela: | sometimes certain windows were transparent ....... |
[15:16] | Kippie Friedkin: | lol |
[15:16] | JayR Cela: | that was a problem for me while building |
[15:16] | JayR Cela: | also it was allways a bit to bright ...... |
[15:16] | Malbers Linden: | Are most of you using old Viewers or customs skins for
??? Dazzle? |
[15:16] | Squirrel Wood: | rc7 no mods |
[15:17] | JayR Cela: | seems to have been toneded down a bit / and is |
much easier on the eyes now | ||
[15:17] | Jacek Antonelli: | Right now I'm using Dazzle on my own |
compiled RC5 | ||
[15:17] | Jessica Kabumpo doesn't know where to get moar SL skins or | |
how to install them. | ||
[15:17] | Tegg Bode: | I'm on the dazzle normal skin, I would like it a |
tad duller , skinable will be good when it comes in. | ||
[15:17] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | nicholaz |
[15:17] | Simon Kline: | u on windows jacek or linux? |
[15:17] | JayR Cela: | also the texture picker seems to work much better
??? now |
[15:17] | Jacek Antonelli: | Simon: Linux |
[15:17] | Malbers Linden: | anyone have the Dazzle skin page handy? |
[15:17] | JayR Cela: | i use both Linux and Windows |
[15:18] | Jacek Antonelli: | There was an interesting article on |
Massively about Dazzle yesterday: http://www.massively.com/2008/05/22/dazzle-the-slippery-eye/ | ||
[15:18] | McCabe Maxsted gave you dazzle mini skin_001. | |
[15:18] | McCabe Maxsted gave you dazzle mini skin_002. | |
[15:18] | JayR Cela: | i think you could really make a lot of folks happy |
by adding a very simple / toggle switch upon login..... | ||
[15:18] | Malbers Linden thanks McCabe | |
[15:19] | JayR Cela: | your choice of old skin or new dazzle skin |
[15:19] | JayR Cela: | shure would stop a lot of complaining |
[15:19] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehe it would, JayR |
[15:19] | JayR Cela: | I mean think about it this way .......... |
[15:20] | JayR Cela: | I am a long time Win-Amp user |
[15:20] | Malbers Linden: | Yes, providing two skins seems to be what many people
??? suggest |
[15:20] | McCabe Maxsted: | you mean https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Skinning
??? ? |
[15:20] | JayR Cela: | for years I stuck with the old skin |
[15:20] | JayR Cela: | but I allways had my choice to use the classic |
skin or the new skin...... | ||
[15:20] | Kippie Friedkin: | I like the icons much better in Dazzle. Much |
more consistent | ||
[15:20] | McCabe Maxsted: | you can download the old skin for dazzle if |
you want, JayR. Although it's a bit weird going back to it after you | ||
get used to dazzle | ||
[15:21] | JayR Cela: | eventually I started to use the new skin every now |
and then..... | ||
[15:21] | JayR Cela: | eventually I decided I saw the benefits of the |
newer design...... | ||
[15:21] | Jacek Antonelli: | I was thinking, regarding having to maintain |
two different skins. Last week Benjamin mentioned problems of coming | ||
up with artwork for both skins as an example. What if you had a dark | ||
variant of Dazzle? It wouldn't be that hard to make two versions of | ||
the same artwork, with a color adjust | ||
[15:21] | Tegg Bode: | Interesting article, yes I don't notice IM's |
anymore unless they flash when I am actually looking at the IM/Local | ||
Chat windows | ||
[15:21] | JayR Cela: | but I was never forced to switch....... |
[15:21] | JayR Cela: | untill I was ready............ |
[15:21] | Kooky Jetaime: | Roflol |
[15:21] | JayR Cela: | same with WIndows XP......... |
[15:21] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I have an interface suggestion, now that |
there's icons. | ||
[15:22] | Kooky Jetaime: | nw thats saying something for planning |
[15:22] | Kooky Jetaime: | hahhe |
[15:22] | McCabe Maxsted: | what's your suggestion jessica? |
[15:22] | Tegg Bode: | The Icons do look cool |
[15:22] | JayR Cela: | I still use the old Windows classic style / |
because I hate the Win XP interface | ||
[15:22] | McCabe Maxsted: | *cough* fisherprice *cough* |
[15:22] | JayR Cela: | ok I said my piece |
[15:22] | Jessica Kabumpo: | move teh dual-toolbars at the bottom into a |
single toolbar | ||
[15:22] | JayR Cela: | I'm done now |
[15:22] | McCabe Maxsted: | hahahaha |
[15:22] | Malbers Linden: | allg ood feedback, JayR |
[15:22] | McCabe Maxsted: | I just sent malbers a pic of my attempt to do |
just that | ||
[15:22] | JayR Cela: | @Malbers / thank you :_) |
[15:22] | McCabe Maxsted: | want to try it out? |
[15:23] | McCabe Maxsted: | it's so much nicer |
[15:23] | Kippie Friedkin: | McCabe...do you have a pic anywhere we can |
all see? | ||
[15:23] | Jessica Kabumpo: | so you'd have the icons on the buttons, the |
chat bar, and the volume bars all on a single toolbar rather than | ||
having two rows of toolbars | ||
[15:23] | McCabe Maxsted: | sure, lemme upload to flickr |
[15:23] | McCabe Maxsted: | one sec |
[15:23] | Malbers Linden: | Yes, that Skinning page McCabe sent out describes how |
you can change the Look | ||
[15:23] | Kippie Friedkin: | cool |
[15:23] | Jacek Antonelli: | What are the dual toolbars? The |
Communicate / Fly etc. is one... is the chatbar / audio the other? | ||
[15:23] | Jessica Kabumpo: | dual toolbars being all the button at the |
bottom, plus the chat bar and volume controls | ||
[15:24] | Jacek Antonelli: | ok |
[15:24] | Tegg Bode: | I hate fly missing from the movement window |
[15:24] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I can Gimp it for you if that'd help |
[15:24] | McCabe Maxsted: | the viewer uses two toolbars: one for the |
main toolbar, that's panel_toolbar.xml, and the other for all the rest | ||
of the junk, that's panel_overlaybar.xml. That latter is further | ||
divited into the chat bar, buttons like stand up, and voice and media
??? controls | ||
[15:24] | McCabe Maxsted: | each with its own xml file |
[15:25] | Malbers Linden notices how cool it is that this meeting is | |
self-organizing. You guys all kick ass. | ||
[15:25] | McCabe Maxsted: | :) |
[15:25] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehe |
[15:25] | Squirrel Wood: | We have experience with office hours. :p |
[15:25] | McCabe Maxsted: | the fly button is still in the movement |
controls by the way, just commented out | ||
[15:26] | Jacek Antonelli: | Interesting |
[15:26] | Squirrel Wood: | both, freeform ones as well as tightly |
regulated ones :p | ||
[15:26] | McCabe Maxsted: | go to floater_moveview.xml I believe and undo |
the comment | ||
[15:26] | Malbers Linden: | do many of you use the movement (or camera) control
??? windows? |
[15:26] | McCabe Maxsted is waiting for files to upload | |
[15:26] | Squirrel Wood: | movement/camera control window: Nope. |
[15:26] | Harleen Gretzky: | /mw never does |
[15:26] | Jacek Antonelli: | Nah, I very rarely use them |
[15:26] | McCabe Maxsted: | use camera controls constantly |
[15:26] | Squirrel Wood: | they are good for beginners but that's about it |
[15:26] | Jacek Antonelli: | Only the camera controls if I'm camming |
around in the sky and there's nothing close enough to alt-click on | ||
[15:26] | Tegg Bode: | Yes I use them all the time, mainly because |
there's no Jump/Crouch butons | ||
[15:27] | Harleen Gretzky: | I use alt-zoom instead |
[15:27] | Jacek Antonelli: | But I bet they're quite useful for new users |
[15:27] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I use my SN for all movement (av/cam) |
[15:27] | Squirrel Wood: | space navigator. flycam mode. |
[15:27] | Malbers Linden: | we have been going back-and-forth about turnign those on |
by default for new residents | ||
[15:27] | McCabe Maxsted: | I got into the habit before I learned about |
the shortcuts, hehe | ||
[15:27] | Harleen Gretzky: | Page Up and Down for Jump/Crouch |
[15:27] | Squirrel Wood: | jump: E crouch: C |
[15:27] | Squirrel Wood: | or pgup/dn |
[15:28] | Jacek Antonelli: | I think it's a good idea to have them turned |
on for new residents. As long as they'll remember that they're turned | ||
off for oldbies like me who don't need them :) | ||
[15:28] | Tegg Bode: | I have SN too but It doen't jump, just flys |
[15:28] | Malbers Linden: | it does seem that using the keyboard/mouse combo is much |
more fluid once you learn it | ||
[15:28] | Jessica Kabumpo: | pull up for jump/fly, push down for land/
??? crouch |
[15:28] | McCabe Maxsted: | http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccabemaxsted/2514989824/ |
[15:28] | Jessica Kabumpo: | the SN can jump, but you have to release it |
VERY QUICKLY | ||
[15:28] | McCabe Maxsted: | http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccabemaxsted/2514161993/ |
[15:28] | Jessica Kabumpo: | or you fly |
[15:28] | Jacek Antonelli is jealous of all the people who can use | |
their SpaceNavigators in SL ;_; Want linux support plz! | ||
[15:28] | Jessica Kabumpo: | MacCabe - almost what I was thinking |
[15:29] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | nice and clean! (although you can drop |
'release keys' :) ) | ||
[15:29] | Jessica Kabumpo: | except I was thinking of having all the |
buttons where you put the Comm button, but only as icons rather than | ||
full width and text | ||
[15:29] | McCabe Maxsted: | the only buttons I'd consider adding are for |
build and inv | ||
[15:29] | McCabe Maxsted: | oh that was my first attempt hehe |
[15:29] | McCabe Maxsted: | I built it, but it felt too crowded |
[15:29] | McCabe Maxsted: | andI kept hitting the wrong button |
[15:29] | Jessica Kabumpo: | ohs |
[15:29] | Malbers Linden: | so, more grey than blue -- is that a fair description? |
[15:29] | Tegg Bode: | Oh cool, just worked out how to get jump/croiuch, |
every time I tried before I would just get chat typing :) | ||
[15:30] | Kippie Friedkin: | That's a great looking skin, McCabe |
[15:30] | McCabe Maxsted: | thanks kippie |
[15:30] | Jacek Antonelli: | Ahh, I see, it's different than just turning |
off the toolbar | ||
[15:30] | Jessica Kabumpo: | so if you give me the files you modded to |
make it like that ..... I put them somewhere in ~/Library/Application\ | ||
Support/SecondLife/ ?? | ||
[15:31] | McCabe Maxsted: | you put htem in secondlifereleasecandidate |
\skins\xui\your language folder | ||
[15:31] | McCabe Maxsted: | I can send you them though; what's your email? |
[15:31] | Jessica Kabumpo: | you mean in /Applications/Second\ Life\ |
Release\ Candidate | ||
[15:31] | Kippie Friedkin: | Hmm..I might have to try that too |
[15:31] | Jessica Kabumpo: | but then they'd be wiped every time I update |
[15:31] | McCabe Maxsted: | well wherever the second life install folder is |
[15:31] | McCabe Maxsted: | yeah, that's the sucky thing about skinning |
right now | ||
[15:31] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | hmmm ..... noticed an interesting visual |
quirk in your flickr pics .... on my screen I am not in the couch | ||
[15:32] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm that would be cool if SN could be set to jump, |
or fly on a longer hold. I can't get muine fast enough to jump | ||
[15:32] | McCabe Maxsted: | I just use a different channel for the RC |
[15:32] | Malbers Linden: | yeah, skinning is not for the feint of heart right now |
[15:32] | Jacek Antonelli: | Oh, I have a question for people who aren't |
using Dazzle right now -- on the toolbar, which button is further | ||
right: Mini-Map, or Map? | ||
[15:32] | McCabe Maxsted: | and no update prompt :) |
[15:32] | McCabe Maxsted: | inventory |
[15:32] | McCabe Maxsted: | oh |
[15:32] | Jacek Antonelli: | Hehe, of those two :) |
[15:32] | Jessica Kabumpo: | (feature request - put UI mods in ~/Library/ |
Application\ Support/SecondLife/Interface) | ||
[15:32] | McCabe Maxsted: | it was switched from 1.19.1.4; minimap is |
farther, I believe | ||
[15:32] | Caitlyn Clawtooth: | map in 1.19 nicholaz |
[15:33] | Jacek Antonelli: | Okay. Because I noticed in Dazzle that I |
kept expecting the Map button to be where the Mini-Map button is now | ||
[15:33] | Jacek Antonelli: | And I wondered if I was crazy |
[15:33] | McCabe Maxsted: | haha no, they switched 'em around |
[15:33] | Jacek Antonelli: | Dang Lindens, always switchin stuff around! |
*shakes fist, winks at Malbers* | ||
[15:33] | Tegg Bode: | Really all the movement stuff & Inventory on the |
right and communication on the left suits me more | ||
[15:33] | Malbers Linden tries to become more transparent than usual | |
[15:34] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehehe |
[15:34] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehehe |
[15:34] | Jacek Antonelli: | Oh, Malbers -- clicking on names in the chat |
window in RC7 to bring up the profile is really neat. Did one of the | ||
Rx Lindens think that up? | ||
[15:34] | McCabe Maxsted: | that was an open source patch |
[15:34] | Jacek Antonelli: | Ahhh |
[15:35] | Tegg Bode: | It's a cool idea |
[15:35] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I likes it. |
[15:35] | Jacek Antonelli: | Yeah, really handy for group chat |
[15:35] | Malbers Linden: | Yeah, its acool addition |
[15:35] | McCabe Maxsted: | yeah, especially in mentors; should make it |
easier to take chat to IM | ||
[15:35] | Tegg Bode: | I just need a n Add to group option somehow to |
expand that further | ||
[15:35] | Jacek Antonelli: | exactly, McCabe :) |
[15:35] | Harleen Gretzky: | It could be done before using the |
participant list (<<) | ||
[15:35] | Kooky Jetaime: | Now that names are hotlinked, making a right |
click pie menu is an easy step | ||
[15:36] | Kooky Jetaime: | Invite, Mute, Profile, Ban, Eject, etc |
[15:36] | Jessica Kabumpo: | that's weird .... my symbols don't appear on |
McCabe's display | ||
[15:36] | Tegg Bode: | ohh that would be good too, so you could interact |
with names of people that weren't in sight | ||
[15:36] | McCabe Maxsted: | maybe I don't have the font installed? |
[15:37] | Jacek Antonelli wonders if she should have known that a | |
useful and universally-loved change would come from a user. :) | ||
[15:37] | McCabe Maxsted: | speaking of reforms to the IM window, the |
teleport button included has been fix pending for many many months now | ||
[15:37] | Malbers Linden: | Anyone know if there's a PJira for Chat 2.0? |
[15:37] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehehehe |
[15:37] | Tegg Bode: | Good to eject a fast bouncing griefer |
[15:37] | Jessica Kabumpo: | does SL have its own font, or does it use a |
system font? | ||
[15:37] | Harleen Gretzky: | what's chat 2.0? |
[15:38] | Saijanai Kuhn: | each OS has its own collection of fots it uses |
to show non-ASCII text. | ||
[15:38] | McCabe Maxsted: | it uses a system font |
[15:38] | Jessica Kabumpo: | ah, okay |
[15:38] | Malbers Linden: | internally, we have a number of bugs as collection |
points for features in obvious buckets (like Chat or Map) | ||
[15:38] | McCabe Maxsted: | you can change it in the debug settings though |
[15:38] | Jessica Kabumpo: | that explains why unicode never shows up for |
Windows peeps | ||
[15:38] | Saijanai Kuhn: | there are 4 fonts SL uses: 3 sizes for |
proportional text and one monospaced font, then it augments the | ||
proportional with system fonts | ||
[15:39] | McCabe Maxsted: | http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6560 if |
anyone wants to vote to make it easier ;) | ||
[15:39] | Tegg Bode: | Damn no unicode for Winows users? We want unicode! |
Umm or do whe what's unicode? | ||
[15:39] | Jacek Antonelli: | Malbers: There's a meta-issue http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1076 |
("Usability suggestions for the new voice/chat Communicate window") | ||
[15:40] | JayR Cela: | lol :_) |
[15:40] | Saijanai Kuhn: | you need to have the specific fonts they |
assume will be available for international text | ||
[15:40] | Malbers Linden: | ah! Perfect. |
[15:40] | McCabe Maxsted: | so what exactly is chat 2.0 then? |
[15:41] | Saijanai Kuhn: | I wrote a patch for that ages ago. Its pretty |
trivial actually | ||
[15:41] | Malbers Linden: | "Chat 2.0" is just a generic name for "stuff we should |
do to make communicating better someday" | ||
[15:41] | Jessica Kabumpo: | McCabe - you missed one thing in that FR. |
"My chat color" | ||
[15:41] | Malbers Linden: | but it is useful to have all these ideas in one spot |
[15:41] | McCabe Maxsted: | for my issue, sai? Could you upload it? |
[15:41] | Tegg Bode: | Yep and can chat 1.0 people still understand Chat |
2.0 people, or am I missing a lot of conversations :) | ||
[15:41] | McCabe Maxsted: | ooh, that's a good idea jessica |
[15:42] | Saijanai Kuhn: | But, it rewrites part of the text handling |
code internally. No way to do it externally, and at that time, the LL | ||
timeline said they'd be working on doing it via XML so I never | ||
bothered to submit | ||
[15:42] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I'd like to chat using my normal text color |
and others in SL see it. | ||
[15:42] | Malbers Linden: | Tegg -- Chat 1 vs 2 is really interface changes. no |
plumbing issues. | ||
[15:42] | Tegg Bode: | cool |
[15:43] | Saijanai Kuhn: | chatsize is really a reference to a different |
font. They implement an APple ][ era text handler, so they use 3 sizes | ||
of TrueType fonts to handle text size | ||
[15:43] | Jessica Kabumpo: | also, can we get teh color picker to allow |
us to input colors using XML color entities and/or CSS color names? | ||
[15:43] | McCabe Maxsted: | that sounds like a good topic for next week's |
office hours | ||
[15:44] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehe I love how I posted screenshots of me |
against the communicate window, but I've become so used to it I can't | ||
do without it now | ||
[15:44] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm only prob with different chat colour for |
different peopole is we already have that for objects, unless we made | ||
them talk in bold or ittallics perhaps | ||
[15:44] | Malbers Linden: | Which topic McCabe? -- color picker? fonts? Chat? |
[15:44] | McCabe Maxsted: | oh was referring to the screenshtos in http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1076 |
[15:45] | McCabe Maxsted: | anyway |
[15:45] | McCabe Maxsted: | I like the idea of bold font for yourself |
[15:45] | Jessica Kabumpo: | I'd like to pick my color in SL by typing |
either "mediumorchid" or "#ba55d3" | ||
[15:45] | Saijanai Kuhn: | the real problem is getting a patch like that |
accepted. LL has inernal plans that some patches step on. That is why | ||
Nicholas got so frustrated | ||
[15:45] | Malbers Linden: | So, dazzle skinning (a la Maxsted)? |
[15:45] | Jessica Kabumpo: | rather than "186,85,211" |
[15:46] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehe yup ;) |
[15:46] | IM: Trinity Coulter: sorry to IM, but I had a question about | |
the focus of your group or Benjamin's | ||
[15:46] | IM: Trinity Coulter: i'm not sure how its all set up | |
[15:46] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm well would be nice if some of the internal |
plans were relased so other peole didn't waste their time | ||
[15:46] | Jacek Antonelli: | Yeah, it's a bit frustrating when you work |
on a big patch and then find out they changed the menus internally in | ||
the meantime ;) *grins* | ||
[15:46] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehe |
[15:46] | McCabe Maxsted: | I'm still relaly hoping that happens soon jacek |
[15:46] | IM: Trinity Coulter: but i'm usually confused what sorts of | |
suggestions are relevant here and helpful, since the discussions seem | ||
to drive off a cliff and explode every week | ||
[15:47] | Saijanai Kuhn: | problem is that a LOT of the roadmaps changed |
when they went into bug-fix mode | ||
[15:47] | Saijanai Kuhn: | avatar puppeteering was put on hold, for
??? isnstance |
[15:47] | McCabe Maxsted: | it'd be so great to have |
[15:47] | Jacek Antonelli: | I told Which Linden (that Linden!) that I'd |
try to get a revised patch that has the new layout | ||
[15:47] | Malbers Linden: | (yep, I'm working on restructuring the menus) |
[15:47] | Jacek Antonelli: | Need to do that |
[15:48] | Jacek Antonelli: | For the menus formerly knows as Client and
??? Server |
[15:48] | McCabe Maxsted: | I've been working on the regular menus (need |
to update my version with the latest change). Together, you and me | ||
jaceck! We'll change those menus yet! | ||
[15:48] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehe |
[15:48] | Malbers Linden: | There is a ton of stuff in Advanced which is just crazy |
[15:48] | Jacek Antonelli: | Power of XUI! Power of Restructure! |
Together, we form... Captain Usability! | ||
[15:48] | Saijanai Kuhn: | BTW, for anyone that wants true bleeding edge |
stuff, check out this: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AWG_Test_Harness | ||
[15:48] | Tegg Bode: | Inventory search by clothing type would be good, |
eg, shoes pants etc. | ||
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | it's there |
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | advanced > clothing |
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | the most USEFUL floater you never new about |
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | (I swear, I love that thing) |
[15:49] | Malbers Linden: | hidden in the Advacned menu |
[15:49] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehe yep |
[15:49] | Jacek Antonelli: | Lotsa good stuff in that menu |
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | yup, like so many useful things taht we can't |
easily fix | ||
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehe |
[15:49] | Trinity Coulter: | McCabe, that doesn't really help since half |
of the items in clothing aren't used as what their clothing type is | ||
[15:49] | McCabe Maxsted: | you can sort by clothing type though |
[15:50] | Jacek Antonelli: | Once it gets XUIfied, it'll be a piece of |
cake to move them into better menus | ||
[15:50] | McCabe Maxsted: | click the icon in the upper left |
[15:50] | Trinity Coulter: | its not useful tho, McCabe |
[15:50] | McCabe Maxsted: | what's wrong with it? |
[15:50] | JayR Cela: | well dinners ready / bye~byee everyone :_) |
[15:50] | Trinity Coulter: | glitch pants aren't really pants |
[15:50] | Trinity Coulter: | they are part of a skirt |
[15:50] | Jacek Antonelli: | Bye JayR! |
[15:50] | Saijanai Kuhn: | later JayR |
[15:50] | Malbers Linden: | Bye JayR -- thanks for the dazzle suggestions |
[15:50] | McCabe Maxsted: | ah, you mean clothing items that were made |
for a different purpose | ||
[15:50] | Trinity Coulter: | jacket layers aren't always actually |
jackets, they're just another layer | ||
[15:51] | Trinity Coulter: | same with lots of it |
[15:51] | McCabe Maxsted: | don't know if there's any UI solution to that |
other than a search bar | ||
[15:51] | Trinity Coulter: | jeans on the underwear layer etc etc |
[15:51] | Tegg Bode: | Wow that is cool & hidden, neds a filter and to be |
findable in the inventory somehow | ||
[15:51] | McCabe Maxsted: | which would be cool to have for clothing too,
??? heh |
[15:51] | Jacek Antonelli: | That reminds me of two changes I wanted to |
make -- 1) arbitrary number of layers of clothing, and arbitrary | ||
order. and 2) clothing layer for the head | ||
[15:51] | Trinity Coulter: | it would be great if you could actually |
count on the clothing types matching up | ||
[15:52] | Saijanai Kuhn: | filter option with search might be doable. Not |
sure what info is retained about clothing though | ||
[15:52] | IM: Trinity Coulter: well that might be an understatement :) | |
[15:52] | McCabe Maxsted: | like an outfit file, symlinked to various |
clothing files, that you could wear and take off | ||
[15:52] | Jacek Antonelli: | Hey, you know what would solve this? |
Tagging! Tagging solves everything. | ||
[15:52] | Jacek Antonelli: | >:D |
[15:52] | IM: Trinity Coulter: when the first statement i hear when i | |
walk in is | ||
[15:52] | Kippie Friedkin: | yes! |
[15:52] | McCabe Maxsted snickers | |
[15:52] | Kippie Friedkin perks up at every mention of tagging | |
[15:52] | Saijanai Kuhn: | a lot of this stuff seems easy but is REALY |
*really* hard to do because the UI ties directly into the asset server | ||
[15:52] | IM: Trinity Coulter: "chatsize is really a reference to a | |
different font. They implement an APple ][ era text handler, so they | ||
use 3 sizes of TrueType fonts to handle text size" | ||
[15:52] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm would be great :) |
[15:53] | IM: Trinity Coulter: that's just technospeak to me | |
[15:53] | Saijanai Kuhn: | you have to rewrite majjor portions of hte GUI |
to get it to work (my pet peeve) | ||
[15:53] | IM: Trinity Coulter: and it seems like you are often trying | |
to solve "typical" resident problems with the Viewer | ||
[15:53] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm must ahve bumped SN, got in middle of room
??? somehow :) |
[15:54] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehe |
[15:54] | Jessica Kabumpo thinks there should be a reloadui command | |
like in WoW | ||
[15:54] | Trinity Coulter: | yes, I've suggested tags LOTS of times |
[15:54] | Jacek Antonelli plays with her SN... most expensive | |
paperweight I ever bought | ||
[15:54] | Jessica Kabumpo: | Lawl ^-^ |
[15:54] | Jessica Kabumpo: | yea, I was surprised how heavy the SN is |
[15:54] | Kippie Friedkin: | ack....the SN is a paperweight? |
[15:54] | Saijanai Kuhn: | Trinity, like i said. GUI mods are much harder |
(some of them) then you expect. Parts of the GUI are actually controls | ||
for the asset server | ||
[15:54] | Kippie Friedkin: | I just ordered taht thing! |
[15:55] | Jacek Antonelli: | Kippie: it is if you use Linux |
[15:55] | Kippie Friedkin: | ah...whew |
[15:55] | Kippie Friedkin hugs her mac | |
[15:55] | Jacek Antonelli: | At least, right now |
[15:55] | Trinity Coulter: | well one thing the Lindens could do INSTEAD |
of modifying assets on the server is just add the tags clientside | ||
[15:55] | Kippie Friedkin: | I opted for the Notebook version |
[15:55] | Malbers Linden: | kippie, the SN does have wierd interactions with Mighty |
Mice though | ||
[15:55] | Jessica Kabumpo: | it has Linux drivers on the CD and on the
??? website |
[15:55] | Trinity Coulter: | have the Viewer deal with tagging not add |
these in serverside | ||
[15:55] | Saijanai Kuhn: | Trinit, but they need to rewrite the GUI to |
allow that to happen. The GUI actually IS the control | ||
[15:55] | Jacek Antonelli: | Jessica: Yeah, but no SL support |
[15:56] | Trinity Coulter: | yes, i realize that |
[15:56] | Kippie Friedkin: | I use a tablet right now..and it makes |
moving around in SL murderous | ||
[15:56] | Jessica Kabumpo: | but like nVidia, AMD, Broadcom and just |
about EVERYONE ELSE .... .they completely forget about BSD | ||
[15:56] | Trinity Coulter: | maybe a rewrite of the Inventory window |
would be a great starting place | ||
[15:56] | Tegg Bode: | What is BSD? |
[15:56] | Jessica Kabumpo: | http://www.freebsd.orb/ |
[15:56] | Jessica Kabumpo: | grr |
[15:56] | McCabe Maxsted: | that has sorely needed to be done for a long |
long time | ||
[15:56] | Jessica Kabumpo: | s/orb/org |
[15:56] | Trinity Coulter: | so it could be more possible to add on |
functionality even if its just client side | ||
[15:57] | McCabe Maxsted: | there's a wiki page on an inv rewrite but it |
hasn't been touched in ages | ||
[15:57] | IM: Trinity Coulter: lol | |
[15:57] | IM: Trinity Coulter: I'm perfectly able to speak geek | |
[15:57] | Jacek Antonelli: | (Hrmmm. Almost 4:00, and Ben never showed. |
He must be busy making a mailing list. *wishful thinking* :) ) | ||
[15:57] | IM: Trinity Coulter: but I prefer not to :) | |
[15:57] | Jessica Kabumpo: | Lawl ^-^ |
[15:57] | McCabe Maxsted: | hehehehe |
[15:57] | McCabe Maxsted: | one can hope :) |
[15:57] | Trinity Coulter: | Ben gets detention then |
[15:57] | Jacek Antonelli: | lol |
[15:57] | Kippie Friedkin: | LOL |
[15:57] | Trinity Coulter: | off to the corn field |
[15:58] | Malbers Linden: | I'll let Ben know he'd in everyone's doghouse |
[15:58] | McCabe Maxsted: | good |
[15:58] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehehehe |
[15:58] | McCabe Maxsted: | and if you can |
[15:58] | Kippie Friedkin: | lolol |
[15:58] | McCabe Maxsted: | leave a note that says "mailing list - |
mccabe" on his desk | ||
[15:58] | McCabe Maxsted: | can't let him escape a week! |
[15:58] | Jacek Antonelli: | "and jacek" |
[15:58] | Kippie Friedkin: | "and kippie!" |
[15:58] | Jacek Antonelli: | :D |
[15:58] | Trinity Coulter: | no no Malbers give him a big hug and tell |
him we missed him | ||
[15:58] | Malbers Linden: | I'll print out this page of the transcript and highlight |
that line(s) | ||
[15:58] | Jacek Antonelli: | hehehe |
[15:58] | Jessica Kabumpo: | Lawl ^-^ |
[15:58] | McCabe Maxsted: | XD |
[15:58] | Tegg Bode: | Pity we can't redecorate his office a little every |
time he doesn't show :) | ||
[15:58] | Jessica Kabumpo: | XD |
[15:59] | Trinity Coulter: | llSetAlpha |
[15:59] | Jessica Kabumpo is thinking of burning a bunch of FreeBSD CDs | |
and mailing them to LL with notes saying "Please support!" | ||
[15:59] | Tegg Bode: | Knock out a wall or 2, add a blimp tehther tower |
and swap or 3 | ||
[15:59] | Malbers Linden: | Well, sorry we didn't have a tight topic today (like we |
ever really do) | ||
[16:00] | Saijanai Kuhn: | well they DO support one variation fo FreeBSD |
[16:00] | Jessica Kabumpo: | ORLY? |
[16:00] | Saijanai Kuhn: | Mac OS X |
[16:00] | Malbers Linden: | but the Dazzle feedback was good and McCabes skins were
??? interesting |
[16:00] | Jessica Kabumpo: | ¬.¬ |
[16:00] | Jessica Kabumpo: | not the same |
[16:00] | Saijanai Kuhn: | eh... |
[16:00] | Jessica Kabumpo: | SL doesn't even build on FreeBSD |
[16:00] | Kippie Friedkin: | oh! one thing...the design studiesfor the |
Landmarks and Navigation project will be up in the next few days! | ||
[16:00] | Jacek Antonelli: | Hehe, today was just as focused (if not |
more) than when we have a topic :D | ||
[16:00] | Trinity Coulter: | is anyone skinning the Lindens running the |
asset server lol | ||
[16:00] | Jacek Antonelli: | Yay, Kippie! |
[16:00] | Kippie Friedkin: | I believe Stephany wil be posting info to sl- |
dev and on the project page on the wiki | ||
[16:01] | Trinity Coulter: | that must be the hardest job |
[16:01] | Jessica Kabumpo: | the linux SL client can not run |
[16:01] | Malbers Linden: | yeah, there is a lot of stress for the folks who handle |
our plumbing | ||
[16:01] | Tegg Bode: | Hmm maybe if our bot population drops now with new |
search the asset server might have an easier time | ||
[16:01] | Trinity Coulter: | too many beans and cheese |
[16:02] | McCabe Maxsted: | or if we had the ability to search fo |
rduplicates we could ease the asset server load | ||
[16:02] | McCabe Maxsted: | my inv is now 45,000 items + |
[16:02] | Jacek Antonelli: | Wow, McCabe! |
[16:02] | Saijanai Kuhn: | something wrong there, IMHO |
[16:02] | Tegg Bode: | yes how knows how many red brick wall textures are |
in the asset server | ||
[16:02] | Jessica Kabumpo: | with the number of recent failures of the |
asset system .... I was starting to think the cluster master was about | ||
to completely fail | ||
[16:02] | Trinity Coulter: | yes, someone actually suggested that |
improvements to the inventory would allow people to clean it out | ||
easier and reduce the asset server load | ||
[16:03] | Kooky Jetaime: | I still want some way to do duplicate sorting. |
[16:03] | Malbers Linden: | alright boys and girls and squirrels and kittens and |
kangaroos -- I'm gonna run. | ||
[16:03] | Jacek Antonelli: | Hmmm. That could be doable with a patch |
[16:03] | McCabe Maxsted: | okay malbers |
[16:03] | Jacek Antonelli: | Alright Malbers, take care! |
[16:03] | Malbers Linden: | thanks (as always) for your time and ideas |
[16:03] | Tegg Bode: | k, cya later :) |
[16:03] | Trinity Coulter: | bye Malbers thank you for swimming by |
[16:03] | Kippie Friedkin: | Cya Malbers! A pleasure, as always |
[16:03] | McCabe Maxsted: | always nice to see ya, take care! |
[16:03] | Harleen Gretzky: | tc Malbers |
[16:03] | Jacek Antonelli: | I'm gonna run as well. Ciao all! |
[16:03] | Jessica Kabumpo waves her paw | |
[16:04] | Jacek Antonelli: | See you next week! |
[16:04] | Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beaumont/154/163/46 | |
[16:04] | Connecting to in-world Voice Chat... | |
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