[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2009-07-21, at 20:58, Philip Rosedale wrote:
> Automating the storage and retrieval of different avatar names seems  
> great!  BUT... making the login screen more complicated seems really  
> bad.   I have an incredibly hard time getting behind adding any  
> controls to that screen!

So put the selector in the menu.

>
> Hmm... I haven't discussed this with any other Linden's, but perhaps  
> an interesting way to achieve both goals would be the following:
>
> 1.  Rename "remember password" to "remember me on this computer"
>
> 2. IF checkbox from #1 is enabled, don't display the login screen at  
> all!  Just skip it and login instantly, like skype, etc.  So a  
> recurring user with the same account (most of them) gets the nice  
> new benefit of a faster login.
>
> 3.  Add a "logout and login as new user or on a different grid" menu  
> option to file menu.  If you choose this option you logout and  
> restart the client and get the screen in cypren's prototype.
>
> Thoughts?

I don't like this idea at all. It seems terribly convoluted and  
complex and certainly doesn't simplify anything... it makes things  
more complex. I need to be able to open SL and log in as Argent  
Stonecutter or Argent David or Argent Silversten without logging in  
with no password, then logging out again. I'd much rather change  
nothing. After all, when I'm testing permissions or multi-user objects  
I'm building I need to log in as two of me at once, not log out and  
log in as someone else.