[sldev] Popup ordering patch

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 25-Jun-2007, at 13:29, Able Whitman wrote:
> One idea I explored (but didn't implement) while working on the  
> patch for VWR-650 was the addidion of a checkbox on permission  
> dialogs that said something like "[ ] Remember my choice for this  
> object". That way you'd only have to grant an object permission  
> once, at least until it was re-rezed.

That's part of it.

Another one is a SCADA-style alarm handler. After the second dialog  
you get the option of a browser interface (the iTunes interface is a  
good example of a browser) that allows you to accept or deny or  
acknowledge multiple messages at once.

And this should be the default interface for requests received when  
offline.

Another one is to make it possible to easily undo things, and then  
don't bother asking for approval. For example, you should be able to  
bring up a list of all the permissions you've granted and revoke them  
individually or en-masse. Then you can expand automatic permission  
grants ... e.g.: objects owned by the landowner or set to the land- 
owning group could automatically get animate and camera permissions.  
Same with objects owned by people in your friends list.

The way auto-preview of textures and notecards is handled is pretty  
annoying, too: you get *two* "dialogs" to handle instead of just the  
the one, and two choices to "keep"... I would much rather just have  
the window be the dialog... that's not the problem, the way multiple  
textures are handled is the problem. Pop up *one* texture, if you  
must, and then put a "next" button on the window. If the user closes  
it instead, they don't get any more pending previews.