Make it standard. +1
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensim-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Valadares > Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 2:59 PM > To: OpenSim-Dev > Subject: [Opensim-dev] Is the message "Please wait 5 minutes" still > needed? > > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to consult you all about this matter, even though I have > already committed some related code. I will gladly change it if we > decide to do things differently. > > Once upon a time, there seemed to be a necessity that you had to wait 5 > minutes if you crashed and tried to log back in. Those were the days > before my time, tales that the elder tells us by the fireside. After > these days, when I started messing around with OpenSim, there was a bug > that would kick you after a few minutes if you tried to log back on > without waiting. This was also fixed (thanks Crista!), which leads me > to > my question. Why are we still getting this message? > > Well, the only purpose I can think of is it warns you that you either > crashed last time or that someone is using your account. Either way, > something went wrong and the user might want to know that. > > So the code I committed puts an option in standalone that allows you to > skip this message and just let OpenSim kick the old user and connect > the > new one, kind of like what happens in messengers if you logon from a > different location. This is very useful when you have softwares that > encapsulate the login process and doesn't want to leave the user > looking > at the viewer's login page with a failed message. > > So, should this become standard and just skip and kick, or should we > leave it up to configuration? Opinions please.. > > > -- > Arthur Valadares <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
