[opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

[Lance Corrimal]

On Tuesday 17 August 2010 10:10:01 Marine Kelley wrote:
> > Suggestions:
> > - make notifications (inventory offers, group notices) stay on screen
> > like they used to be
> 
> I'm sure there is a debug setting or an XML option to do that, I'll look
> when I have time. But they would pile up pretty quickly, unlike 1.x the
> notification do not hide each other (which is good) but stack up to the top
> of the screen, cluttering it rather quickly when you're in group chat.

I meant "make them stack like in 1.23 / snowglobe 1"...


> My own biggest gripe about the notification system is silly but very
> annoying : when you receive an object or a notecard you  get a
> "Keep/Discard/Block" window, then once you click "Keep" you get another
> notification telling you you've accepted the offer. Not only this
> notification is rather useless (I know I have accepted the offer or joined
> the group or whatnot, I've just done it), but the "OK" button to get rid of
> this confirmation is exactly where the "Discard" button of the next
> notification will be ! More than once I have hit "Discard" by mistake on
> the second notification of, say, my mailbox that sends me the notecards of
> my customers. And since it comes from an object, "Discard" will simply
> destroy the transferred item, not put it in trash. Because of this, one
> more customer believes I do not respond when someone buys something from a
> vendor of mine and my server does not deliver.

I havent endured 2.x for long enough to notice that, but i can see how painful 
that would be.



bye,
LC