[sldev] Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-01-09, at 07:44, Latif Khalifa wrote:
> And how about implementing what everybody really wants, a check box  
> saying "do not receive IMs from this group".

Hell yes.

Or how about something that every IM program in the world has: "log  
in offline"?

When you "log in offline" you don't show up as logged in to IM, to  
"friends", to "give inventory", on the web, nothing. People  
interacting with you through any interfaces that don't involve being  
actually present in-world get the same response as if you're offline.  
If you do anything that involves the IM system (including accepting  
inventory from people not in the same sim, sending IMs, and so on)  
then you go online (after a warning dialog). So you can, you know,  
log in to build without having 3000 IMs from people who have been  
waiting to pounce, and without having to play games with alts and  
tripping over permissions and making sure that you don't create prims  
in the wrong account for stuff you're going to sell...

NO, BUSY MODE AND "ONLY SHOW ONLINE TO FRIENDS" DO NOT COUNT, OK?  
Busy mode is *especially* useless, and having to go through your  
friends list and reset who you're going to show as online with when  
you want to go in and out of offline mode is (a) horribly time  
consuming, and (b) probably going to lag the hell out of the asset/ 
presence servers.

Sorry about shouting. But this has been a sore spot for... eek,  
getting on years now.