[sldev] Landmarks and Navigation Project Update 2008-05-22

[Richard Nelson]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:54:43 -0700, Argent <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Richard Nelson <richard at lindenlab.com>
> wrote:
>> There are several operations which require a full inventory search...I
> don't remember
>> them all.
>
> I don't think pulling in landmarks is, because when I open a folder in  
> the
> inventory it will open, but other folders in the inventory may still be  
> in
> the downloading state... and teh landmarks folder is no exception.
>

The inventory fetch is scheduled one folder at a time.  Any time you  
explicitly open a folder, the request for the contents of that folder are  
put at the top of the queue, so you should see the contents appear  
quickly.  But as long as you see the number of fetched items being  
reported at the top of the inventory window, then the entire thing is  
being downloaded.

>> The working assumption right now is that any time you run the client you
> will need
>> your entire inventory contents in short order.
>
> I don't know that's a safe assumption. Usually the first thing I do when  
> I
> log in is
> look up a landmark to get to the first place I want to go to. I do this  
> long
> before I
> hit the inventory for anything else. Bringing up the inventory menu in  
> the
> map is
> MUCH slower than opening the inventory, opening landmarks, and working  
> from
> there, but
> it's also more convenient.

I'm not saying that the fetch occurs immediately, or even for everyone.   
Just that, with average usage, you will generally end up fetching your  
entire inventory whenever you log in.  It puts too many constraints on our  
feature set if we have to delicately step around having your inventory  
available.

Richard