[sldev] Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer

[Nicholas Chase]

Latif Khalifa wrote:

> Many communities/support groups depend on the current behavior. The 
> reason we want this unique solution where IM tab appears on demand is 
> that in SL is the group chat is one of the subsystems that we use all 
> day, its not the main focus of our activities. We do not have screen 
> real estate to have all those group chats tabs open as we would have in 
> a dedicated IRC / other IM client.

Let's also remember that while for us as developers it's just something 
that we use while we're doing other (IMO more interesting) things, 
statistically, socializing is what Second Life is used for more than 
anything else.  If it becomes less useful for regular users, that's a 
problem.

----  Nick