[opensource-dev] Migrating open development focus to 2.x

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-05-27, at 16:50, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
> I understand that might leave
> behind things that the Snowglobe user/dev base wants and that some
> people are not happy with some elements of 2.x.  What I'd like to know
> is... what needs to happen to make that choice that most people can be
> happy with?

Roll back most of the changes to text chat, at a bare minimum fix the  
text chat focus problem, but really text chat needs to be in a single  
overlay instead of a separate badged pane for each person speaking,  
and the text input gadget is at least half the width of the screen.

Roll back the sidebar, or maybe provide an option to have separate  
floaters instead of the sidebar.

Put the location back in the title bar so the search bar can be hidden  
without losing track of where you are.

I don't know what to do about IMs, I found the combination of IMs and  
notices popping up in the lower right corner completely  
incomprehensible and uncontrollable. It's frustrating, like the viewer  
is going "stuff happened! But I'm not going to let you see it!"

I can't explain that last part better because I haven't been able to  
use 2.0 for long enough to really grok it, because of the vertigo I  
get from the sidebar.

I would like to at least see a Snowglobe 1.4 with the script limit  
visibility and clothing layer functionality of 2.0 released before  
abandoning 1.x completely.