[sldev] RE: Landmarks and Navigation Update 2008-05-29

Jacek Antonelli jacek.antonelli at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 14:59:08 PDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Brandon Lockaby <gbrandon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would one be able to look through the location history and decide to
> bookmark any of the items?

Great idea! Maybe have a star icon (like on Twitter) or similar, that
you can press to make a landmark out of it (which would put it in the
menu and your inventory).

> Also I want to put in a few words about back & forward buttons:  remember,
> Second Life has teleport problems and much like the web you don't always
> know where the back button is going to take you.  Can you imagine hitting
> the back button rapidly trying to find something?  So, with a web browser,
> you have something like drop-down box buttons next to those back and forward
> buttons showing a quick history you can choose from, that comes in handy.

_Emphatically_ agreed. Teleports are costly -- they take a long time,
they're not easily undo-able, and they can sometimes crash your
client!

There is a drop-down history planned (a little down arrow button near
the back button), but I would argue that a better solution is to have
pressing the back button pop up the menu, _not_ automatically
teleport. The only cost of popping up the menu is that it takes one
extra click to teleport. The cost of automatically teleporting is much
higher: it's not hard to imagine accidently teleporting out of an
important meeting because you made one stray click.


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