For the record: +1 for making it optional, with a debug setting default to off.
The viewer has such wonderful instrumentation and debug facilities. Removing them in the name of "simplifying" is a big mistake in my opinion. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > It's not gonna be a debug setting. The information's available to put it on a > HUD if you care. We're pulling the feature and simplifying the viewer. > > On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Liny Odell wrote: > >> Make that +2 for a debug setting >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Trilo Byte <trilobyte5...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> +1 for making it a debug setting (to choose whether you see notifications). >>> >>> The server version info would still be available in Help -> About as well as >>> World -> Place Profile -> Region/Estate >>> On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Erin Mallory wrote: >>> >>> could even bury the option in the debug console... most people that would >>> need to turn it on would not likely keep flipping it I would think... >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:32:53 -0800 >>> From: os...@lindenlab.com >>> To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com >>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications >>> >>> It does have use for people testing server. I'd say make it optional, more >>> informative, and disabled by default. >>> >>> __Oskar >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Erin >>> Mallory <angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> to rephrase, yes I like them, thought i'd rather see them on the chat >>> history and have more detailed. but i can live without them if the majority >>> really want to see them gone altogether. for me it helps me during certain >>> testing and stuff to know when ive changed server versions but that's really >>> about it. >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com >>> To: missannoto...@yahoo.com; q...@lindenlab.com; >>> opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com >>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:04:09 -0500 >>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications >>> >>> I would also like to see the toast moved. it can be useful and would be >>> more useful if it had the actual version. but i would like to see it on the >>> chat history instead. in fact... it would be nice to have an option to have >>> ALL remaining system notifications be optionally shown in chat history >>> instead of as toasts. for one thing it would log better i think, for >>> another... well toasts bother a rather significant portion of sl. those >>> with some forms of epilepsy, migraines, some forms of add... to name a >>> few... >>> >>> Erin/aka Cummere >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:35:01 -0800 >>> From: missannoto...@yahoo.com >>> To: q...@lindenlab.com; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com >>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications >>> >>> Doesn't it add some minor overhead to region crossings? I don't care about >>> it. The message does not say what server version you just entered so it is >>> mostly an annoyance. If I need version info I know where it is. >>> >>> What I would like to see is region rating and a single letter server version >>> code on the map without having to mouse float. >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q...@lindenlab.com> >>> >>> Hi, folks. I've just commented on STORM-243, which requests that we have Yet >>> Another Option to allow suppression of the toast that tells you the >>> simulator version changed when you changed to a new region. >>> >>> I think we should delete it entirely. Does anyone care to still get that >>> notification, now that there are usually 3 different simulator versions live >>> on the grid at any time? I don't mean "I can think of an obscure scenario >>> when someone might care." I mean does anyone really need a notification >>> about this, or can we just delete it? >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
