[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Latif Khalifa]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Philip Rosedale <philip at lindenlab.com> wrote:
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> Hi All!  Apologies for coming in late, I've been travelling on east coast.
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> 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!
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> Hmm... I haven't discussed this with any other Linden's, but perhaps an interesting way to achieve both goals would be the following:
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> 1.  Rename "remember password" to "remember me on this computer"
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> 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.
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> 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.

I really dislike this idea as well. Unlike skype SL is not something
you want started automatically as you login into your computer.

* The goal of making SL start faster is noble, but saving one click
there isn't going to help much
* I happen to know a lot of people who really like the splash screen
and are in awe of scenes that get rotated there, kudos to those
Lindens who made them!
* The login screen provides useful information, latest blog posts,
grid status, etc.

-- L