[opensource-dev] Open Inventory Transfer

[Baloo Uriza]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:25:05 -0700, Ricky wrote:

> Well, she was recently instructed by my dad (an advanced user like
> myself) to send him a notecard she was editing.  She asked how.  My dad
> instructed her to "drag it to the IM window."  This she knew how to
> find.  She then complained that it didn't work.  This brought me to look
> at what she was doing.  She was trying to drag the notecard edit window
> onto the chat popup to send him the notecard.

Sounds like your mom might also be relatively inexperienced with working 
with subwindows as well.  However, the instructions given to her could 
have been slightly more clear as well; "drag it to the IM window from 
your inventory" might have worked better.

> Because of this, I would like to put forth the suggestion for further
> study of allowing the user to drag asset windows (notecards, textures,
> etc.) onto the varied existing ways of sending content. (IMs, Profile
> pages, etc)

How would you differentiate someone trying to reorganize subwindows 
within a viewer with inventory transfer events, then?  I think that 
problem makes this suggestion entirely unworkable in practice.