[opensource-dev] Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

Lear Cale lear.cale at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 07:35:40 PST 2010


Oops, clarification.  The script would think it got permission in the
case where it's automatically granted, but denied by the GUI popup.
In the case where permission isn't automatic, the user gets the popup
and the script gets permissions only if the answer is affirmative.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Lear Cale <lear.cale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we're arguing over something that's a side effect of an
> implementation decision, not a fundamental issue of personal liberty.
> Windlight happens to be client side rather than server-side, even
> though it's more about the environment -- the created world -- than it
> is about personal control of the GUI's look and feel.
>
> In any case, a lot of people will want to retain control and should be able to.
>
> I suggest that, for parcel or region control, the first time an
> automatically-grantable request to change WL happens, the user should
> see a popup which asks whether to allow it, along with a "don't ask
> again" checkbox.  This popup would be in the form of a GUI popup
> rather than the permission popup.  The permission popup would only be
> for cases where permission isn't automatically grantable.  (The script
> would think it got permission, and this should be DOCUMENTED so it
> doesn't get reported as a bug.)
>
> This should satisfy most people on both sides of this fence.  Most
> people would grant it and never worry again.  Those who don't want to
> yield control would only have to click "no" once.  And it would be a
> checkbox in the "View" menu somewhere, to change on a whim.
>
> Lear
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin)
> <maggie at matrisync.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I suppose that some people do NOT want a shared experience
>>> and to live in their own little isolated world. Well, can't
>>> deny them power over their own viewer,
>>
>> Good, thank you. Because there are people who don't seem to believe in
>> that; that owning some parcel should give them huge rights to control
>> other people's viewers.
>>
>>> But may I remind you that there is ALSO no opt-in to
>>> ignore the music url of a parcel, and keep the one you have
>>> set?
>>
>> Actually *loading* the music URL *IS* an opt in, thank goodness, in
>> the current production viewer (and the current beta viewer behavior of
>> automatically willy-nilly loading of URLs is a *huge* security issue)
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