Viewer 3.5 Gripes

[DeeJay Sharktooth]

Is there a certain place that I need to go to express extreme frustration with the lack of a feature in viewer 3.5 that was in other SL Official viewer releases that is really bugging me?

 

Issue = Why in the blue hell is there no more chat bar in this viewer? Did the developers just say hmmmm.... lets irk the living hell out of people and make it where this big a$$ chat box has to be on the scren constantly in order for conversations to be followed when in a crowded area???? Devs if you are monitoring this PLEASE for the love of God allow the use of the chatbar and local chat to be followed on screen like it was before without the need of having this communication box to be open in the next release of the Official viewer client!!!!!!!!!

[Eric Castanea]

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DeeJay Sharktooth wrote:

Is there a certain place that I need to go to express extreme frustration with the lack of a feature in viewer 3.5 that was in other SL Official viewer releases that is really bugging me?

 

Issue = Why in the blue hell is there no more chat bar in this viewer? Did the developers just say hmmmm.... lets irk the living hell out of people and make it where this big a$$ chat box has to be on the scren constantly in order for conversations to be followed when in a crowded area???? Devs if you are monitoring this PLEASE for the love of God allow the use of the chatbar and local chat to be followed on screen like it was before without the need of having this communication box to be open in the next release of the Official viewer client!!!!!!!!!

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I agree - that's a huge annoyance.

[Cincia Singh]

There is a chat bar. You have to pull it out of the Chat Console and place it where you want it. Then you can have a local chat small console OR a single line chat bar. It all depends how you set it up.

[DeeJay Sharktooth]

And how exactly do you pull the chatbar from the console? I am not seeing how to do this....

[Solaria Goldshark]

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DeeJay Sharktooth wrote:

And how exactly do you pull the chatbar from the console? I am not seeing how to do this....

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Uninstall the whole mess and use Firestorm.

[Coby Foden]

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DeeJay Sharktooth wrote:

And how exactly do you pull the chatbar from the console? I am not seeing how to do this....

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Watch this and learn:

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/A-Shiny-New-Communications-Hub-for-the-Second-Life-Viewer/ba-p/1957779

 

[Deej Kasshiki]

Ah, Torley's intro video to the "new and improved" CHUI. I watched it when it was released and learned that it was the most convoluted, messy way they could have created to deal with text chat. I went back and watched it again and I still don't see any way to have a single line text entry bar as the OP wants.

How this could be considered an "upgrade" is beyond me. Thankfully, I haven't used a Linden viewer in years and if they keep coming up with "features" like the CHUI I doubt I ever will again.

[Coby Foden]

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Deej Kasshiki wrote:

Ah, Torley's intro video to the "new and improved" CHUI.

 

I went back and watched it again and I still don't see any way to have a single line text entry bar as the OP wants.

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Ok, I noticed that in the video Torley used an early version of the CHUI viewer.  It was not possible to have single chat line then. But due to many complaints about it, Linden Lab added single line functionality in later viewer release.

This is how things work in: Second Life 3.5.3 (276452)

[Czari Zenovka]

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Solaria Goldshark wrote:

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DeeJay Sharktooth wrote:

And how exactly do you pull the chatbar from the console? I am not seeing how to do this....

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Uninstall the whole mess and use Firestorm.

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I agree!  I haven't used the official SL viewer since shortly after I began in 2007.

[Suspiria Finucane]

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Solaria Goldshark wrote:

Uninstall the whole mess and use Firestorm.

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 Without LL code there would be no firestorm hence it is impossible to uninstall the whole mess and use Firestorm since the majority of the mess as you put it is included.