[opensource-dev] Review Request: STORM-2 As a User, I want to set my own default views with specific UI layout so I can tailor my Viewer experience to the activities I'm most interested in.

[Andrew Dyukov]

If everything will remain as it is in current implementation, layouts
will be saved as several LLSD files in one folder, not in single LLSD
file - it was done to allow adding of image files into layouts in
future. So placing a folder into an archive and sending it by email
(or other way) would be needed to share a layout.
About proposed solutions- they both sound reasonable and probably may
be added to the feature in future.

2011/1/18 Opensource Obscure <opensourceobscure at gmail.com>:
> Just to say this new feature looks very promising!
>
> A question. The 3rd note says
> "the files associated with saved layouts will be LLSD text files, so you can
> email or paste layouts into a notecard to share with other users".
> (the note also explains why this is not the ideal behaviour ever,
> and also why we have to deal with it for now)
>
> This sounds even cooler! ...but - how would that process of
> sharing LLSD files exactly work?
> I mean, where will users have to put those LLSD files?
>
> here is the scenario I'm thinking about:
>
> - a "teacher" (or mentor, friend, etc) is explaining to a new user
> how to build in SL
> - the teacher shares with the new user an LLSD file that contains
> an ideal layout for building, and says "put this in your SL folder"
> - the new user is now confused: many newbies don't know
> the difference between the software folder and the settings folder,
> and they don't know where those are;
> this gets even worst to solve for people trying to help them,
> because pathnames are different across different operating systems,
> across different releases of the same o.s. - or because of localization.
>
> possible solutions:
> - add another option in Preferences to choose the folder where we keep layouts
> - add a menu command to choose a specific layout file  - then the viewer
> would copy that file into the actual settings folder.
>
> Opensource Obscure
>