[sldev] 1.20 release notes (cleaned up)

[Soft]

Bridie was out this AM and so she couldn't head me off from dropping
the last version of the release notes. It turns out she had already
done thorough cleanup work.

In the future, look to linden/indra/newview/releasenotes.txt by the
time of the first RC for these notes. I'm adding a note about this to
the docs directory as well:


The much clearer, pJIRA-centric:

Release Notes for Second Life 1.20(0) April 9th, 2008
=====================================
New features and changes:
* Updates to the user interface (UI) visual design and architecture:
** A new, lighter color scheme
** Improved UI graphics (icons, buttons, etc)
** Ability to customize text color of Instant Messages
** Enhancements to the UI texture rendering system
** Ability to reference textures by filename
** Support for non-powers-of-two textures
** Support for PNG textures

* LSL scripting for object glow!
** Script a prim's glow attribute, details here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetPrimitiveParams

* Improved Joystick and 3D input device support
** Integrated a new open source library created by 3Dconnexion
designed to integrate multi axis input devices with Second Life
** Joystick devices can now control the Avatar, Edited Objects, or the
Flycam (View menu > Joystick Flycam)
** Added a "Joystick Setup" window to the Preferences under "Input &
Camera" for adjusting multi axis input devices
** Settings are currently optimized for Logitech's 3Dconnexion
SpaceNavigator but should be tunable for any joystic or 3D imput
device

Changes:
* Removed voice setup wizard from Viewer
* Removed "Detecting hardware" from first-use startup to save 10
seconds of start time
* Removed "Critical Message" string from startup community standards dialog
* Removed "Start Gesture" from menu bar
* Removed "do you want streaming audio" dialog
* Removed Friends dropdown on Map
* Display the Camera and Movement controls by default
* Added online offline notification to open IM windows
* One click sit not be available if you're already sitting
* Replaced "(hippos)" and "(waiting)" with "(Loading...)"
* Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
* Double-tap forward to run
* Adjusted the right-justified text on the splash screen
* Ctrl-shift-1 now displays Statistics in a floater
* Login progress bar change
* Option available to turn off all group titles to make name tags smaller
* Small UI tweaks made to the "near me" floater for usability

Fixes:
* SVC-1072: Havok 4 -- Objects can exist up to 4096 meters up, but
scripted rez above 1024 meters fails silently
* SVC-747: Estate Banned Residents list doesn't increment higher than 252
* VWR-5498: WindLight Release Candidate doesn't rembember correct size
of IM window between sessions
* VWR-747: Texture preview should not have constrained aspect ratio
* VWR-3984: WindLight: Certain snapshot options incorrectly capture a
part of the screen
* VWR-3438: WindLight: Glow (including water reflections) shows
through HUD objects
* VWR-4616: Snapshot, clicking on more removes current pic
* VWR-1405: llMapDestination does not work as designed for OS X/Intel viewers
* VWR-3625: Highlights don't affect non-root prims
* VWR-2113: Mac Auto Updater "hides", giving appearance of failing
* VWR-2755: duplicate PARCEL_FLAG_RESTRICT_PUSHOBJECT line in keywords.ini
* VWR-442: Require confirmation when inviting a new group owner
* VWR-4903: Show avatar's name in the "Eject" and "Freeze" confirmation screens
* VWR-6066: "Are you sure you want to clear you browser cache" in
"Perferences > Web > Clear Now" has a typo
* VWR-5656: Secondlife icon missing in Linux version 1.19.1 RC1 ?
* VWR-2600: Add option to enable Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) in the viewer
* VWR-3633: Avatar impostor of not-yet-rezzed avatar not appearing
* Localization of camera controls/tooltips
* Fixed: glow is rendered on property lines and selection silhouettes
* LLImageJ2C now indicates what en/decoding implementation is being used
* New messaging to inform Residents about consequences of selecting
"Can modify my objects"
* Fixed: Estate tools in non-english UI cannot change maturity level
of islands from PG to Mature.
* Fixed: Agent Limit spontaneously resets to zero
* Fixed: Web control code does not correctly reject sl:// links
* Fixed: Wait before printing missing gestures if the name isn't yet available
* Abrupt velocity changes of SL camera are smoother
* llMapDestination() can be used to open place dialog to teleport user
without opening map
* Fixed: Cannot close Buy Land floater when (waiting for data) from web site
* Fixed: Gestures appear in random order
* Fixed: Preference Help button is not pointing to the correct url
* Added Hyperlink to MOTD.
* Fixed: Occlusion crash on SIS cards
* Fixed: VBO related crash on ATI R100 cards
* Fixed: lowest avatar detail is higher than before
* Fixed: Avatar Impostor sprites have opaque black edges
* Fixed: Impostors tilt
* Fixed: Impostors need to update once after they stop walking
* Fixed: Provide way to visually mute "costly" avatars (check cost:
client->rendering->info displays->avatar render cost)

Source changes:
* The settings system has been significantly revamped.
llcontroldef.cpp has been replaced with an XML file controlling all
settings values: app_settings/settings.xml
* The command line parser has also been revamped. All but a few
special arguments are now associated with control settings and
controlled by the file app_settings/cmd_line.xml
* VWR-2645: Source typo RELEASE_FOR_DOWNLOAD should be LL_RELEASE_FOR_DOWNLOAD ?
* Fixed: g++ 4 viewer compile issues
* Dead code removal createLegacyWearableFromAvatar