[opensource-dev] Jonathan's attempt to rearrange the graphics preferences

Martin Fürholz fuerholz at gmx.net
Sat Jan 24 00:29:02 PST 2015


Hello,

 

I am right now looking at the test-viewer with Jonathan’s rearranged
graphics preferences

 
<http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/jonathan_st
orm-2082/rev/298332/arch/CYGWIN/installer/Second_Life_Test_3_7_21_298332_i68
6_Setup.exe> Second_Life_Test_3_7_21_298332_i686_Setup.exe

 

As you can see in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qzZbJVG.png what
previously fit into a single window plus a small floater with
hardware-options, now takes 3 pages, with an option to scroll.

 

This makes it really difficult to help less-experienced users in support or
even when helping friends, because I can’t easily exchange snapshots with
them, showing how they are supposed to set up their preferences.

 

And it simply looks untidy, cluttered and confuses the user.

 

There are some options added now, which were hidden in debug settings for a
reason before. Also the current version still has some bugs, but I’m not
going into details now.

 

I would ask you please not to mix up two completely different topics and
merge it into one, to promote Jonathans own preference about the
graphics-floater: the Jira-issue (title and description) is making us
believe, that Jonathan is just going to add an option to save and restore
graphics settings.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-2082? “Allow saving and loading of
graphic settings”

But the test viewer shows us something completely different (he deliberately
totally changed the layout and even the available options in the graphics
preferences floater).

 

I personally don’t like the changes. And if you all of you would take a look
at the Jira-issue, you will notice that other highly experienced residents
also dislike it. There is not a single comment supporting these changes
(assuming that LL’s action of deleting my own comments from that Jira
doesn’t count).

 

Nothing speaks against the option to save and load graphics settings, but
that’s really not what STORM-2082 is about. I’m curious what an UX-expert
would think of those changes.

 

Kind regards,

 

MartinRJ

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