[sldev] VWR-10311 Enabling lip sync by default

[Ron Blechner]

I have always thought that good preferences organization is about good
grouping of similar topics with further drill-down pages as you get to
nitty-grittier options.

For example, I liked the way Linden Lab handled the Advanced Graphics
tab, where you need to click a box to open up the specific settings
for draw distance, object/tree/etc detail, etc. I think that serves as
a good example of how lots-of-feature-options can be put intelligently
into a menu.

Additionally, I think Linden Lab can consider the +/- expand practice
that is commonplace among software with lots of preferences, where you
have broader top-level topics that expand into sub-topics.

-Ron




-- 
Ron Blechner
Chief Technology Officer
Involve, Inc
www.involve3d.com
SL: Hiro Pendragon



On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Melinda Green <melinda at superliminal.com> wrote:
> An advanced preferences floater would not be much different from all the
> "Advanced" buttons we already have in the existing one but less standard
> and harder to find something you're looking for. I prefer working hard
> to find good organizations of all Preferences controls considered to
> have value and not worrying so much about the number of them. When in
> doubt, moving a control to or from the Advanced menu is a reasonable
> solution.
>
> -Melinda
>
> Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
>> How about having an "advanced" version of the preferences window, with
>> options that are advanced for the regular users, but already past beta
>> therefore not belonging on the Advanced menu, with a checkbox on the
>> general tab of the preferences window to hide or show the advanced
>> settings ?
>>
>>
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