[opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications

[Kent Quirk (Q Linden)]

It's not gonna be a debug setting. The information's available to put it on a HUD if you care.  We're pulling the feature and simplifying the viewer.

On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Liny Odell wrote:

> Make that +2 for a debug setting
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Trilo Byte <trilobyte550m at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1 for making it a debug setting (to choose whether you see notifications).
>> 
>> The server version info would still be available in Help -> About as well as
>> World -> Place Profile -> Region/Estate
>> On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Erin Mallory wrote:
>> 
>> could even bury the option in the debug console... most people that would
>> need to turn it on would not likely keep flipping it I would think...
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:32:53 -0800
>> From: oskar at lindenlab.com
>> To: opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
>> 
>> It does have use for people testing server. I'd say make it optional, more
>> informative, and disabled by default.
>> 
>> __Oskar
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Erin
>> Mallory <angel_of_crimson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> to rephrase, yes I like them, thought i'd rather see them on the chat
>> history and have more detailed.  but i can live without them if the majority
>> really want to see them gone altogether.  for me it helps me during certain
>> testing and stuff to know when ive changed server versions but that's really
>> about it.
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: angel_of_crimson at hotmail.com
>> To: missannotoole at yahoo.com; q at lindenlab.com; opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:04:09 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
>> 
>> I would also like to see the toast moved.  it can be useful and would be
>> more useful if it had the actual version.  but i would like to see it on the
>> chat history instead.  in fact... it would be nice to have an option to have
>> ALL remaining system notifications be optionally shown in chat history
>> instead of as toasts.  for one thing it would log better i think, for
>> another...  well toasts bother a rather significant portion of sl.   those
>> with some forms of epilepsy, migraines, some forms of add... to name a
>> few...
>> 
>> Erin/aka Cummere
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:35:01 -0800
>> From: missannotoole at yahoo.com
>> To: q at lindenlab.com; opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
>> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] STORM-243 - simulator version notifications
>> 
>> Doesn't it add some minor overhead to region crossings? I don't care about
>> it. The message does not say what server version you just entered so it is
>> mostly an annoyance. If I need version info I know where it is.
>> 
>> What I would like to see is region rating and a single letter server version
>> code on the map without having to mouse float.
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com>
>> 
>> Hi, folks. I've just commented on STORM-243, which requests that we have Yet
>> Another Option to allow suppression of the toast that tells you the
>> simulator version changed when you changed to a new region.
>> 
>> I think we should delete it entirely. Does anyone care to still get that
>> notification, now that there are usually 3 different simulator versions live
>> on the grid at any time? I don't mean "I can think of an obscure scenario
>> when someone might care." I mean does anyone really need a notification
>> about this, or can we just delete it?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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