Comments on: The next future of the SL Viewer http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/ Raul Crimson's experiences in Second Life® Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Raul Crimson http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1427 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:38:54 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1427 Well, Looker, i recommend you the Nicholaz’s patch, IM have their own window with tabs, friends and groups have their own window each, so is quite similar to the old window system style. Moreover, with this patch, the client is a bit more stable and doesn’t crash so often as the “official” viewer.
You don’t need to pay to make that disappear, lol, the patch is free, take a look at the blog by Nicholaz Beresford.

]]> By: Looker Lumet http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1426 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:26:59 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1426 Raul, just as you and Phoenix, i don’t like the current history window. it covers half of your screen, if you have lots of IM’s, you won’t be able to see the last ones, if you are not paying good attention, you have to scroll from right to left, and back again…. I will pay someone to make that disappear.

]]> By: Raul Crimson http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1425 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:21:03 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1425 Some more info about all this:
The “OnRez Viewer” by The Electric Sheep Company will be released on Oct 24th.

Yesterday i installed the “open source patch” (MAC version) by Nicholaz Beresford, and is really good! Viewer works better, i had no crashes and friends, groups and IMs are in different windows :-D (Yay!)

]]> By: Wolf Hartnell http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1422 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:36:24 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1422 Diversity is almost always a good thing. This is where I think open source has its greatest part to play. With many independent developers working on alternate solutions, a selective parallel evolution can occur with each developer being able to adopt the very best strategies proven by others, and ultimately the users will be able to choose from a field of options each greater than the original. Even Microsoft finally realised this, so I am very excited by what people are doing with the SL interface. I may well install different interfaces according to what I am logging on to do, in the same way I switch between browsers according to my needs. The communicate interface is certain to be a hot topic as this is where other developers can easily experiment with innovative ideas, but the Linden browser may still prove better for other tasks. Exciting times indeed! :)

]]> By: Raul Crimson http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1424 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:16:45 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1424 I’d like to try the “open source” viewer by Nicholaz, some people says is great and works better than the LL one. I’ll tell you my experience.
About the “Communicate” window, well, i think that the old “multiwindow” system was not exactly the best, but at least was better and easier to use than the actual one. Now, when you have more than three IM going at the same time, all is a madness of flushing tabs, lol

]]> By: Phoenix Ellsberg http://raulcrimson.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1423 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:05:13 +0000 http://raulcrimson.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/the-next-future-of-the-sl-viewer/#comment-1423 I, for one, would be very happy to see some improvements to the current UI. Like you, Raul, I really don’t like the ‘communicate’ window – far too messy and it doesn’t shrink as small as the old IM window used to. It will be interesting to see what they come up with to improve things.

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