[sldev] Snowglobe 1.2 RC coming soon

Opensource Obscure open at autistici.org
Mon Nov 30 11:21:20 PST 2009


I usually run different LL and non-LL viewers. Today 
I logged in with the stable official LL viewer 1.23.5 136262
and I found this (well-known?) situation, that I could reproduce:

#1 http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=420787
#2 http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=420788 
#3 http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=420789
#4 http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=420791

I cleared cache and restarted the viewer, but there were no
improvements - note how the UI appears on the avatar skin;
this is visible by other users as well:
#5 http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?ID=420794

re: #1 - #5 photos: please follow links and read descriptions
for more details about worn items, texture rebake etc.

in #4, you can also see 'cylindric legs' that I got using
other viewers as 1.23.2 (2259):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceobscure/3533071361


I got the exact same behaviour with Snowglobe 1.2.4 (3007).


This is a critical bug because private data disclosure can 
easily happen - and in fact, VWR-3282 (80 votes) is marked 
as such: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3282

I periodically experienced it since summer 2006 and there
are lots of other reports about it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceobscure/3620318762
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13724
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-5196


I don't run 2 monitors, and in my setup the SL window
never has a portion of it that is off-screen (in Aug 08
Alexa Linden suggested to check these things).


In my case, it appears that this is triggered by switching
to other running applications than Second Life; but again,
this is something users are supposed to do routinely, and
I think that "don't switch to other windows" can't be
an acceptable workaround.


This said, I still think this one of the coolest SL bugs
ever - I'm not sure I want you to actually fix it :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceobscure/3694340469/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceobscure/3666101545/

bye
Opensource Obscure
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http://www.youtube.com/user/OpensourceObscure


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