[sldev] Moving the permissions window

[Able Whitman]

The current version of the patch, which is attached to VWR-650, doesn't move
the permissions notification, but it does alter the notification in other
ways to help make the changes readily apparent even to users with color
blindness:

* the debit notification window is much taller than the standard
notification, which mitigates the "accidental click-through" problem
* the debit notification includes an additional textual warning at the top
of the window, in bold white (in contrast to the non-bold black text on the
rest of the window)
* the debit notification uses a different icon in the upper-left corner
* instead of 2 buttons, "Yes" and "No", the debit notification has 3
buttons, "Grant", "Deny", and "Details..." (the 3rd button raising a modal
alert with more information about the debit permission)

It would certainly be possible to do something like move the debit
permission notification to another corner of the screen, or even to move it
to the left so that it doesn't overlap the standard notifications. Another
suggestion I got was to make it a modal dialog or something similar to that,
where the debit permission behaved completely differently from other
permissions requests.

I chose the current implementation of the debit notification because I felt
it struck a good balance between communicating the importance of the debit
permission, while not annoying the user (something moving the window around,
or imposing a forced delay before dismissing it might), or confusing the
user (which presenting them with a new, modal dialog instead of a popup
notification might).

If you'd like, I would be happy to provide anyone who's interested with a
private drop of the Windows binaries built from 1.16.0.5 sources which
includes the debit permissions patch. I would love to get more feedback from
people who have tried out the new behavior. If you're interested in getting
a private drop, just send me an email.

I've also attached some screencaps of the debit patch in action to the bug,
and you can also see them on my blog:
http://ablewhitman.blogspot.com/2007/05/update-1-second-life-viewer-patch-to.html

All that said, I'm willing to be convinced that a different approach is
better, so if you think the current behavior is still inadequate, let me
know! I'm the only person so far who has tried out the changes "in-world",
but for me they seem to be just fine :)

--Able


On 6/6/07, Matthew Dowd <matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I raised this with Rob Linden, who suggested I post the issue here. It
> also relates to Able Whitman's recently debit permissions patch.
>
> As well as making the permissions dialog different, I would suggest moving
> it to a different part of the window than the normal permissions.
>
> Whenever I buy from a vendor in SL, typically two windows pop-up ("You
> have paid xxx" following by "You have received..."), I've lost count how
> many times I have gone to click on the former, and the latter has popped up
> just as I click, and I end up clicking (luckily on keep) in the former.
> Maybe by timing is just strangely tuned to the delay between the two popup
> windows ;-)
>
> It did occur to me, that it would be very easy to script a dialog followed
> by the permissions request, in the hope that someone would go to close the
> first and end up accepting the permission by mistake.
>
> The solution would be to have the window appear somewhere different from
> the normal dialogs. In many ways this would also have the effect of
> highlighting the window as different (as per Able Whitman's patch) but in a
> manner which would also work fo those suffering colour blindness.
>
> Matthew
>
>
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