[sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report

[Lawson English]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On the subject of refactoring the GUI, the last time this came up 
> there was a suggestion that teh LL GIO be made a portable toolkit 
> rather than using a portable OpenGL toolkit for the GUI. After looking 
> at the LL GUI code, I believe that it would probably be better to 
> throw Linden Labs support behind one of the existing OpenGL GUI 
> toolkits. It's pretty specialized and missing a lot of basic 
> functionality like automatically cropping or wrapping text in widgets...

How extensible are such toolkits? Can they have simple skins? What about 
animated skins? A game-oriented GUI has needs that business-oriented 
ones do not and while SL isn't JUST a game, there are game-like 
features, and many games can-be/have-been created using SL as a games 
platform. Any GUI toolkit used for the main SL viewer should be 
extensible on those areas.

It's not enough that it is simply better/cleaner than the current GUI. 
That's a given, IMHO.


Lawson