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

Jacek Antonelli jacek.antonelli at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 15:37:44 PDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Sarah Hutchinson
<sarah at aucreativegroup.com> wrote:
> Address Bar - The address bar will display a SLURL by default. Users can
> enter a SLURL,  or Region name in their Inventory.

Ick, ick ick. I don't want to read nor type nasty, ugly, cofusing
"http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beaumont/152/166/46" when I should just
be able to type "Beaumont", "Beaumont (152,166)", or "Beaumont
(152,166,46)" -- depending on how specific I feel like being. Why
force people to type in all that needless boilerplate and punctuation?

It would also be really useful to be able to type in a landmark, with
name completion, just as it is in the Map floater. Type in "Ben's
house" (the name of the landmark in my inventory), press Enter or
click Go, and off I go to Ben's house.

> If the Resident types in
> a Region name that is not in their Inventory, we will go a global search to
> find the location. If the location cannot be found, the Search floater will
> open.

I'm fond of the way Firefox's search bar will make suggestions if you
type something in and pause for a little bit. It would be great to
have region name suggestions pop up in a similar way, after a delay.
(It might be tricky to integrate that with landmark name completion,
though.)

> Set the number of days to store location history
>
> Set the number of days to store address bar history

Another suggestion: number of locations to store. So, store the last
10, 20, 50, etc. items, rather than days. This could be a number entry
with a drop-down box or radio buttons next to it, e.g. "Remember the
last [_10_] (_) days (o) items"

> Received Landmarks - A sub-folder in the Landmarks folder in Inventory where
> all received Landmarks are stored by default.

I love this idea. Would especially love to see this generalized into
an "Inbox" / "Received" folder for all inventory. I know I'm not alone
in this wish. :-D But that is probably outside the scope of the
project.


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