[sldev] Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-01-12, at 13:17, Lawson English wrote:
> And they should  keep in mind that "game" interfaces have always  
> been exempted from the Apple Interface Design Guidelines,

This has nothing to do with guidelines, or looking like a desktop  
application or not looking like a desktop application.

This has nothing to do with SL being a game (which it is) or a  
development tool (which it is) or a chat system (which it also is),  
though it is also a general purpose platform used for a lot of  
different things and that it wouldn't be nearly as useful if it was  
designed around being ANY of the above things. It's also worth noting  
that games are notorious for having lousy user interfaces, and the  
example you give of a program that breaks the UI guidelines isn't a  
game.

The point that I'm making here is that configuration hooks are  
something to be encouraged, not attacked as a sign of a bad UI  
design, because the "best" general purpose UI out there is just  
loaded with configuration hooks AND they get used.