Difference between revisions of "Talk:User Interface Roadmap"

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Certainly, it is for me, and no-one could use the SL framework for creating cross-platform tools for SL until such a thing is available and a plug-in API will be much easier to implement if the tool/plugin is using the same GUI framework as the client it is plugging into. [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai]] 12:19, 4 September 2007 (PDT)
Certainly, it is for me, and no-one could use the SL framework for creating cross-platform tools for SL until such a thing is available and a plug-in API will be much easier to implement if the tool/plugin is using the same GUI framework as the client it is plugging into. [[User:Saijanai Kuhn|Saijanai]] 12:19, 4 September 2007 (PDT)


While we understand that this is highly desired by a lot of extrnal devs, we have to prioritize providing a better experience for the majority of the residents. This means giving greater priority to providing our UI designers with better tools for improving the UI.
* [[User:Steve Linden]] While we understand that this is highly desired by a lot of extrnal devs, we have to prioritize providing a better experience for the majority of the residents. This means giving greater priority to providing our UI designers with better tools for improving the UI.

Revision as of 12:35, 4 September 2007

prioritization of roadmap is off, I think

The VERY FIRST THING you guys need to work on is part 2 of step #4,

Step 4: Lightweight Client

LLViewerApp#Phase 2

•Clean up the client initialization, update, and render loops so that individual pieces (e.g. 3D rendering) can be de-prioritized or disabled
•Create a sample UI only client


Until you have a simple "hello world" window available, prototyping GUI classes and GUI elements will be quite bearish, to say the least.

Certainly, it is for me, and no-one could use the SL framework for creating cross-platform tools for SL until such a thing is available and a plug-in API will be much easier to implement if the tool/plugin is using the same GUI framework as the client it is plugging into. Saijanai 12:19, 4 September 2007 (PDT)

  • User:Steve Linden While we understand that this is highly desired by a lot of extrnal devs, we have to prioritize providing a better experience for the majority of the residents. This means giving greater priority to providing our UI designers with better tools for improving the UI.