Tanya Wibault

I've metioned this in another thread but now I'll just ask it outright, is anyone working on a legacy UI for the Viewer 2? Is it even possible, or are we stuck with the new UI wether we want it or not? I understand that all the new features require a new viewer but things like Mesh and Alpha layers and whatever new additions to the game don't have any effect on how the UI looks. I like my chat box... I like having my screen free from some big bulky sidebar. I hate being asked every time I change sims or just walk from one parcel to the next if I want to hear the music stream there! there is a lot of very annoying things in the new viewer, it would be nice if we could have the new features and keep our old UI.

From what I've heard, and this is all hearsay, soon LL will be stopping all viewers based off of V1 and only allow V2 based viewers to work on the grid. This worries me. We may be forced to use V2 or a clone of it with that nasty sidebar and all the other irritating new 'features'. Most of the people I run into don't use V2 and I mean anywhere I go. Mass majority use Phoenix (you would think LL would catch on to the hint here, people don't like V2!) Seriously, go to any club or other Sim where there are a lot of avatars and look at your radar. You'll find that very very few use the V2. Now, I understand the need for a new viewer, all the advances and new things in SL like alphas and physics, and the new mesh (something I don't quite understand yet) have just been patched into the old viewer. With V2 it's not a patch, it's built that way which means smoother operation and less bugs. I don't want LL to get rid of V2, I just want a choice. I want to be able to play how I want to with the UI I find appealing. If people like the new UI that's great, (just from looking around I don't think they do)but give those of us that have been playing for a long time the choice to keep our nice friendly UI.

Is anyone working on a legacy UI for V2? Or at least one that gets rid of that horrible horrible side bar!!? What were they thinking covering a 3rd of your screen in a game where people pay a lot of money on visual looks? If this was a text game I could see wanting to make a big fancy chat interface, but it's not! My nice clean screen with my HuD items neatly placed around the outside is all screwed up with that clunky huge sidebar. If LL isn't going to give us a way to get rid of it I hope that someone out there will make a veiwer that does.