Hey Y'all, maybe i had an idea... There's been a lotta "comment" on the new viewer 2.0 look 'n feel stuff. Some ppl love it! Others hate it! Whatever it is, i think it's been a sorta polarizing issue, huh?
One thing, the official claim is that it tests well with noobs. Some say that's 'cause they don't know any better or that it's more like what they're used to with whatever else they do on the Internet or just plain whatever. Maybe it's just that yet another aspect of VW technology has been revealed that hadn't been noticed or anticipated so much before? What if there were two modes to the viewer? That's been suggested already, i know. What i don't think has been suggested is putting it in the context of two (maybe more) different kinds of users, and i don't mean something dumb like noobs and oldbies! i think maybe it's the diff between ppl who are more rp focused and ppl who are more business or professional focused? Y'know, some ppl don't want a whole virtual world so much as a tool to get some project done, or for some special purpose where a whole VW is a distraction but the background & context the capability provides is still important? Like, i'll be straight up and say that for me, i like a lot about viewer 2.0! But, i so totally *hate* that sidebar bashing into me like someone with a sharp elbow on the bus, or the disappeared floaters and windows i can't see through anymore! The annoying things make it hard to focus on the things i like lots of times. For me, it would be super cool if the viewer had a "mode switch"! A selection i could make to go back and forth from "RP Mode" or "VW Mode" with immersion optimised to "Professional Mode" or "Utility Mode" where the VW was more like just another screen or window that had something interesting going on in it? A third mode might even be something sorta halfway in between & made really simple with lots of help for noobs so the learning curve wasn't so steep, perilous, or confusing. :-P For the Big Picture SL presentation i can see something like all the SL windows, including all the chat, inventory, group, etc - everything (even HUDs?), being just windows for the OS with the VW its own window that maybe is maximized and maybe isn't. In maximized mode the VW window could have the ability to "draw in" or spawn inside without "leaving" the VW any or all of the windows for chat, inventory, etc in their floaty, sometimes transparent mode like the Terminator's heads up display that so many like so well! Y'know, the best of all worlds? It's just an idea. i haven't compiled & mod'ed the viewers yet, so i don't know how much work it would be to do all that. Maybe an unrealistically, impossible too much. Anyway, have a great day!! Oh, BTW, if you feel like answering this msg or making a comment or whatever, pls, pretty pls don't drag the TPVP argument into it? 'K? i mean, yeah, it's important and all, but this isn't that conversation? _______________________________________________ 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
