Hello,
I am right now looking at the test-viewer with Jonathans rearranged graphics preferences <http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/jonathan_st orm-2082/rev/298332/arch/CYGWIN/installer/Second_Life_Test_3_7_21_298332_i68 6_Setup.exe> Second_Life_Test_3_7_21_298332_i686_Setup.exe As you can see in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qzZbJVG.png what previously fit into a single window plus a small floater with hardware-options, now takes 3 pages, with an option to scroll. This makes it really difficult to help less-experienced users in support or even when helping friends, because I cant easily exchange snapshots with them, showing how they are supposed to set up their preferences. And it simply looks untidy, cluttered and confuses the user. There are some options added now, which were hidden in debug settings for a reason before. Also the current version still has some bugs, but Im not going into details now. I would ask you please not to mix up two completely different topics and merge it into one, to promote Jonathans own preference about the graphics-floater: the Jira-issue (title and description) is making us believe, that Jonathan is just going to add an option to save and restore graphics settings. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-2082? Allow saving and loading of graphic settings But the test viewer shows us something completely different (he deliberately totally changed the layout and even the available options in the graphics preferences floater). I personally dont like the changes. And if you all of you would take a look at the Jira-issue, you will notice that other highly experienced residents also dislike it. There is not a single comment supporting these changes (assuming that LLs action of deleting my own comments from that Jira doesnt count). Nothing speaks against the option to save and load graphics settings, but thats really not what STORM-2082 is about. Im curious what an UX-expert would think of those changes. Kind regards, MartinRJ
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