I agree. WL settings are about the appearance of the environment, not the GUI per se. And Carlo has a great suggestion that WL settings should be supported as inventory items, similar to LMs. (Going to make a JIRA for that, Carlo?)
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:42:27AM -0800, Kelly Linden wrote: >> I admit I only briefly skimmed the jira. I was mostly reacting to the panic >> I >> saw here. I don't think it needs a permission request in the case of parcel >> owners, but that is just my personal opinion. I do believe the environment >> should be promoted to being part of the content and not part of the viewer, I >> think we get more amazing in world experiences that way. > > +1 > > WindLight settings should have made a shared experiece a long > long long time ago. For years people have been complaining about > delivering half-work, about not finishing it! > > It is no different than whether the region default is midday, > sunrise, sunset or midnight (or anything in between). > > A *shared experience* is an important part of Second Life, > it is even mentioned in the TPV policy as being of major > importance, something I whole heartedly agree with! > > To me, it is crucial to know that my friends, when we are > exploring, see the same thing as me, so that we can react to > it and weave a story around our collective experience, without > that I have to ask: what is your draw distance? what is your > environment setting? :( > > Hence, all windlight settings should at LEAST be part of the > region default and be set the moment you enter, without popups > or permission request by default. > > I suppose that some people do NOT want a shared experience > and to live in their own little isolated world. Well, can't > deny them power over their own viewer, so there should be > an opt-in to ignore windlight settings (and keep the current > one). But may I remind you that there is ALSO no opt-in to > ignore the music url of a parcel, and keep the one you have > set? > > More important questions are these: > > * Who can change the windlight settings? > * Should there we windlight settings per estate only, or > per parcel as well? > > And things that I would like personally are things > that promote sharing windlight settings: > > * Allow windlight settings to be 'traded' like objects. > > It should be possible for ANYONE to create their own > windlight setting (that only they see at that moment) > and then "hand that over" to friends, or to the estate > owner, or to a parcel owner, or just keep a collection > of them to play with. > > -- > Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
