[opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

[Ricky]

Excepting the minorest detail: There is no "community" to collectively
throw anything anywhere.  There is only a collection of independent
developers, each of which makes up their own mind, and may or may not
agree with the vocal minority.

Personally, I have a few problems with viewer 2, but most are fixable
with some (relatively) simple changes that would make the entire thing
more consistent and dynamic.  It is not a complete loss, and several
things I actually like, and the rest I'm ambivalent as I see those as
just refactorings of the same thing.

Remember, nobody here is representative, nor can speak for, anyone
else but themselves.  Barring LL employees using their work email
addresses, of course.

Now, let's get onto making sure this repository builds...

Ricky
Cron Stardust

(Just making sure that I'm not counted among the minority majority...)

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Smith <javajoint at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
> <oz at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2010-08-16 14:23, Henri Beauchamp wrote:
>>
>> Well, the first improvement to do is to actually revert 80% of the UI
>> to the way v1.23's one was working, especially getting rid of that
>> moronic side bar is its modal tools which impair productivity and
>> user-friendliness... The question is: will LL finally admit that the
>> viewer 2 UI is a failure and widely rejected by 80% of its regular user
>> base, and accept a move in the way of "going back" (actually repairing)
>> UI-wise ?...
>>
>> I've said this before, and I'll repeat it again here:
>>
>> Don't waste everyones time suggesting that we throw away Viewer 2, or that
>> we revert the UI to Viewer 1.   It is absolutely not going to happen, and
>> any suggestion to that effect will be ignored.
>>
> There is a brief honeymoon period where the community will try to work with
> you.
> If you show that you are not listening, then the community will collectively
> throw
> their hands up in the air, and go the OpenSim + 3rd party viewer route.
>
> The SL Viewer is not the only game in town.  Your own statistics as to which
> viewers are being used certainly should bear that out.
>
> Daniel
>
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>
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