[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Philip Rosedale]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> 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.
That seems like a great idea!  Keep the login screen the same (or even 
simpler than it is now) by moving the option of logging in as a 
different user than last time as a menu option.  Definitely something to 
think through!
>
>>
>> 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.
Wait - isn't this a case where the needs of the many outweigh the needs 
of the one?  Probably >90% SL users only login as one account name, 
right?  If we make the client auto-login for those users, we've 
delivered a huge savings in terms of login time across all users, 
right?   Argent, how about if we added a prefs option (defaulted off) 
"Always show login screen on startup"?  That would make it no problem 
for the people who like you describe will need to login as multiple 
different people all the time. 

Philip