✨ Feature Requests

Two new notifications have invaded the SL viewer for reasons that baffle me as they are distracting, unnecessary, disruptive of work flow, and potentially privacy-busting. The notification that you have typed an invalid character now pops up in the precious upper-right hand corner of the screen usually reserved for far more important notifications such as payments and announcements from the region owners or Lindens. It does not appear as a hover or toast or message at the workspace itself while editing. You can already tell you have an invalid character as you look at the object window or other type of editing window you are working with because your work STOPS. You already know it is invalid because your prompt STOPPED. You don't need your eye dragged up to the upper right-hand space for an invasive, duplicatory message. The notification that you have taken a screenshot that saved to your computer's inventory folders now also invades the upper right-hand corner. You already know that you took a screenshot because...you set up the location of where screenshots go when you selected the settings in Preferences. You do not need a distracting constantly repeating notice of this event happening each time when...you selected this option permanently -- and could change that location at will. The notice displays to the owner of the browser only, but if you copy room chat to make transcripts of office meetings, other various community and public resident meetings, you will see the notice then included -- outing the name you have used to label your system folders on your own computer, which might even be your full real name -- that you have to painstakingly edit out. These are features no one among the general user base asked for to my knowledge. They have the feel of technologists' perfectionism in systems like CAPSLOCK notices which you already can see because you already have capital letters. The "invalid notifications" proposal was suggested here and simply immediately passed through without debate -- but does not have some mass community demand: https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/961 (I will provide a screenshot of "invalid characters" when I can catch the next one) If these intrusive notifications cannot simply be removed, then provide the user with the option to mute them in Preferences. Currently they DO NOT APPEAR in Preferences as an option to mute.

I would like to organize the PICKS in my profile so that I can have the order make some sense. Also I agree we need more PICKS, I have been here almost 19years and 10 is not enough

Putting that little logo in there is a really good idea. Only trouble is that, since URLs are often long, it ends up on the line above the URL where it is easily missed. My suggestion is simply to put it at the END of the URL instead of the beginning. I think that's where your eye lands anyway, and it's way more likely to be right there next to the URL instead of on another line. (Heck, if it's important enough, have it show up in both places.)

The lack of a single line chatbar, or even demanding the resident to open the whole chat window is annoying, its painful for the eye, it fills a whole space in the UI, denying people to see the buildings and other avatars. Old SL interface had that (it was taken down with the new SL), firestorm kept that, im pretty sure a LOT of people still uses firestorms due this feature. Tried to minimize this monstruous window with a debug setting named CloseChatOnReturn, set to TRUE, even the debug option is not working.

Virtual try-on features are becoming standard in many virtual worlds and online platforms. It would be nice if we could preview Marketplace items, like clothes, accessories, and skins, right on our avatars without purchasing demos, logging into SL, and teleporting in-world. This could also work like a cloud-based dressing room. I’m imagining a “Try-On” button that temporarily shows the item on your avatar in the viewer. Something like a temporary attachment or viewer-side preview. Creators could upload a special preview version, and the system would render it locally without saving anything to your inventory. Maybe the SL viewer could fetch a demo version and render it directly or use a sandboxed attachment layer that applies the item temporarily using a HUD. Either way, it would simplify the shopping experience and cut down on clutter and extra steps. It would help eliminate demo folders piling up in inventory. Residents won't need to log in to try things on. It would be easier for new users to explore fashion and avi customization and save time. New users usually do not understand how to unpack boxes, wear items, or teleport to demo areas, and overall, this could potentially lead to more confident purchases with fewer regrets overall. It would also modernize the shopping experience and allow creators to showcase their work better. Thanks

When terraforming land, we currently have a squared target area and at nearly 20 years on the grid, it's the only one I recall having. Is it possible to have a circular option for softer land sculpting in addition to the harder lines we have now?

We need to be able to see our passwords at login. Every other major software company in the world lets you do it, even my money managers where I have my assets. Why doesn't the viewer allow us to click to see out passwords? This is archaic.

The Visited floater is really handy if you want to revisit that store you were at 3 days ago but can't remember the name of. It's equivalent to the History menu in a web browser. The Visited floater can be opened in 2 clicks, by clicking the Places icon (globe icon on the left edge) then clicking the Visited tab. Meanwhile the down arrow next to the location bar shows an alphabetically sorted list of some recent locations, which is less useful than the Visited floater (IMO). Proposal: When you click the down arrow of the navigation bar, show the contents of the visited floater, scaled to match the width of the address bar. Scrap the alphabetically sorted list that currently lives there. Make sure typing a name into the address field correctly searches the history.

The current method that SL uses to encrypt passwords for saved logins, specifically using Network settings, causes issues when switching between networks on a laptop. Please find a better way to encrypt the saved credentials, especially on systems where things like network configurations can be easily changed (in particular, laptops, but this applies to other systems that switch their network settings as well).

was at the voice test meeting today, i learned some new things! but some things could be better. 1: Default Voice Blocked or Unblocked i wish to be able to set a blanket voice block on everyone, and then only UNblock people i want to hear. as it is now, everyone is automatically unblocked, and i have to block people one by one. 2: Nearby Voice Floater: A: please allow colour coding of names. blue for lindens, yellow for friends, etc. also, sorting options. B: please add an "all" checkbox, so everyone in nearby voice can be muted at one time, without having to right click each and every icon. (i didn't try shift-clicking or control-clicking on the list. does it already allow multiple line selections? if not, pleas add that, too.) 3: Voice Block separate from Text Block when i blocked all those avatars on voice... their avatars were also greyed out, and their text was greyed out/hidden. that's not what i wanted. i wanted to see them and read their text normally, but just block them ONLY on voice. thanks for looking!