[sldev] Popup ordering patch

[Max Okumoto]

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a "lock protecting your wallet".   
Or at least some sort
of governor that limits the size of transactions.

You don't walk around with cash in your hands all day long.  You leave 
it in your wallet until
you need to buy something.

                 Max

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> The big issue with click-through isn't really having a popup timed to 
> come up on top of an existing benign dialog, it's having a lot of 
> similar dialogs up at once and clicking through them all to clear 
> them... and having one of them take money from you.
>
> For example, this is what people who spam group invites to "pay to 
> join" groups depended on... people logging in and having a bunch of 
> "You got an IM from FOO" and "BAR has given you an object" messages, 
> and clicking "join" accidentally.
>
> There's three classes of dialog that we should be thinking about here:
>
> 1. dialogs for which the results are easily reversed, eg: friending.
> 2. dialogs for which the results are hard or impossible to reverse, 
> eg: certain permissions
> 3. dialogs for which results can include an irreversible loss of money 
> or inventory, eg: payment
>
> Then there's a second dimension:
>
> a. dialogs that are triggered only by a user's explicit action. "do 
> you really want to do that?"
> b. dialogs that are triggered asyncronously.
>
> There should probably be few if any "a" type dialogs, and it should be 
> possible for the user to disable most of them, though there's a few 
> special cases (like granting someone permission to modify your 
> objects) that should be rare and the dialog shouldn't be disabled.
>
> Type A and B dialogs should probably look different.
>
> Class 3 dialogs should probably look different.
>
> I don't think popup ordering should be changed, unless there's some 
> kind of clear and obvious effect to clearly indicate that there's new 
> dialogs coming in. For example, having a stylized stack with its depth 
> proportional to the number of dialogs "below" the displayed dialog.
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