Desktop Screen Mode for SL Marketplace
SarahKB7 Koskinen
Recent changes to SL Marketplace were made to benefit those using mobile phones in portrait mode. But Second Life is still largely used by a majority of desktop computer users and the SL Marketplace should mirror that too.
The recent changes have negatively affected the way SL Marketplace now appears on desktop computer screens, with two-thirds of a desktop screen having wide empty side borders of a desktop monitor screen, which are left unused and wasted.
So please introduce a Desktop Screen Mode option to SL Marketplace, allowing the entire width of a desktop monitor screen to be utilised, with a wide variety of screen size options too, just as the SL Viewer already has.
Secondly, please duplicate the Marketplace's page numbering up to the top of the screen as well, which would allow more rapid page flicking/changing. This would bypass the already slow and unnecessary time-wasting chore of scrolling through a long list of 24/48/96 items just to reach the inconvieniently placed page numbers located at the bottom of the screen.
Lastly, the new catagory icons are needlessly childish, confusing and don't always contain content that they appear to represent. They need to be removed and replaced with clearly legible written catagory titles again.
Attached are images of how SL Marketplace currently appears on a Desktop PC Windows 11 16:9 screen (1920x1080) and how I would improve SL Marketplace's UI to allow the full width of a screen to be utilised. Unnecessary confusing catagory icons removed and a "Screen Size" option button added.
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