[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2009-07-21, at 21:32, Philip Rosedale wrote:
> 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?

Maybe, but I suspect 90% of active merchants, developers, and creators  
are in that remaining 10%.

> 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.

That would be OK, except that I'd suspect that you'd cut down the  
number of calls to support if you didn't default it to anything, but  
had a first time dialog asking people if they would like to always  
automatically log in like that, or always go through the password  
screen, and explain why... and how to back out.

Linden Labs has this tendency to surprise people with small but  
significant user interface changes like this, and the cost of guessing  
wrong about what people find least surprising can be surprisingly high.