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

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-07, at 16:50, Richard Nelson wrote:
> Ok, my apologies.  It seems we agree in principle then.  I was  
> speaking to the overall behavior of inventory fetching, not to the  
> specific behavior of the landmarks dropdown in the map.  I agree  
> that the current implementation is not terribly usable, and your  
> suggestion sounds reasonable to me, personally.

I understand, it's easy to get off on a tangent in email, and I was  
kind of getting off on one.

> Off the wall idea here...how about a hybrid inventory view/ 
> dropdown?  What you see at first is a text entry box with an arrow  
> next to it.  But what you type in the text field doesn't just  
> perform a match against the first characters of each entry, like a  
> typical combo box, but instead performs a filter operation against  
> all landmarks in your inventory.

Hmmm, so when you pull down the inventory you get your Landmarks  
folder, but when you search it searched all your inventory? That  
would give you the best of both worlds, perhaps. I don't think I'd  
really care about where the landmarks were in my inventory in that  
case, so having it go into a folder view pulldown is probably  
unnecessary yak shaving.

Leave the more complex view for the inventory folder or the landmarks  
floater.

...

You know, though, this does give me an idea...

What about making the landmarks navigation bar associated with the  
map somehow?

Move the region search entry to the top, like a search box, and put  
forward/back buttons next to it, and let it accept slurls or Region  
Name (X,Y,Z) or secondlife: urls. Then you don't have to worry about  
forward/back teleporting and stuff, all it would do would be move the  
destination dot around on the map until you hit teleport.

Like, at the top of the map you'd have a navigation bar like this:

+-----------------
| (<) (>) [ Region (X, Y, Z) _____________________ ] (Search) (Copy)  
(Teleport) [Landmarks _____ |v] [Friends ________ |v]

Layout not precise, but you get the idea, yesno?