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which brainchild did this?
stpaulsub Clio
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02-07-2008 18:54
I'm curious and i'm sorry if this has already been said ... i looked but didn't see any other threads about it, at least in here.

Which junior brainiac at LL decided to put teh release button where the chat button has been for at least 3 years, AND make it twice as big as every other button on teh interface??
WHY oh WHY do you people insist on screwing with teh parts that work just fine? Why? anybody give me a reason?
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Alicia Sautereau
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02-07-2008 19:07
From: stpaulsub Clio
I'm curious and i'm sorry if this has already been said ... i looked but didn't see any other threads about it, at least in here.

Which junior brainiac at LL decided to put teh release button where the chat button has been for at least 3 years, AND make it twice as big as every other button on teh interface??
WHY oh WHY do you people insist on screwing with teh parts that work just fine? Why? anybody give me a reason?

using the some mathematical equation as they do, the answer would be:

why not?
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02-07-2008 19:09
Some interface programmers have a family to feed.
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02-07-2008 19:11
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02-07-2008 19:15
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Susie Boffin
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02-07-2008 19:16
What is "teh" release button?
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Alicia Sautereau
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02-07-2008 19:20
From: Susie Boffin
What is "teh" release button?

animation control like ao, vehicles etc
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02-07-2008 19:21
From: Alicia Sautereau
animation control like ao, vehicles etc


I was commenting about the "teh". :)
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02-07-2008 19:24
You mean teh "teh"?
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Har Fairweather
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02-07-2008 19:25
From: Susie Boffin
I was commenting about the "teh". :)


It is one of several technical terms taht denote frustration to the point of losing basic motor control.
Alicia Sautereau
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02-07-2008 19:25
From: Susie Boffin
I was commenting about the "teh". :)

teh d`oh :rolleyes:
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02-07-2008 19:27
This sort of thing is one reason I never download updates anymore unless they are required. Just 'tain't worth it.
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02-07-2008 19:27
From: Har Fairweather
This sort of thing is one reason I never download updates anymore unless they are required. Just 'tain't worth it.


My rule of them is "Let everyone else be the guinea pigs"
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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02-07-2008 20:33
yeah I and a few others have already mentioned this in other threads LOL

I think we all hate it (almost as much as ppl who still try to use "leet" speak such as teh (why oh why would ppl make a word out of a typo?)

yuck
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02-07-2008 20:55
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Some "interface programmers" have a family to feed.
Pretty generous with that term, there. Sort of like calling a box of paints an "artist".
Marianne McCann
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02-07-2008 23:02
From: stpaulsub Clio
I'm curious and i'm sorry if this has already been said ... i looked but didn't see any other threads about it, at least in here.


It's been said a couple places. :-)

Mari
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Rebecca Proudhon
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02-07-2008 23:19
Is it some kind of hint?

Please release me, let me go,
For I don't love you anymore,,
Colette Meiji
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02-07-2008 23:54
who even uses that lame button ?
Raymond Figtree
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02-08-2008 00:01
I like the title of the thread. It's so grammatically incorrect that it actually makes sense.

Thankfully there are no buttons involved when I need release. I've always been a zipper man.
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Morwen Bunin
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02-08-2008 00:01
From: Colette Meiji
who even uses that lame button ?


I do! Recently very often... when I want to hit the chat button!!!

Morwen.
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02-08-2008 01:48
From: Morwen Bunin
I do! Recently very often... when I want to hit the chat button!!!

Morwen.


LOL

Okay

WHo uses this lame button on purpose?


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Even when the button was small I hated it, it was always detaching stuff Id then have to hunt in my inventory.
Damanios Thetan
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02-08-2008 02:35
Go to:
- Windows: [program files]\Second Life\skins\xui\en-us\panel_overlaybar.xml
- Mac: [Applications]/Second Life/skins/xui/en-us/panel_overlaybar.xml (don't have a mac with SL installed right now, so could be different, file should be the same)

- Edit this file using text editor.

Look for:

<button bottom="1" follows="left|bottom" font="SansSerif" halign="center" height="20"
label="Release Keys" label_selected="Release Keys" left="229"
name="Release Keys" scale_image="true"
tool_tip="A script has taken control of your keys. Click here to release them."
width="102" />

- Remove the part
- Save and start SL.

Button should be gone.
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2k Suisei
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02-08-2008 03:24
From: Damanios Thetan
Go to:
- Windows: [program files]\Second Life\skins\xui\en-us\panel_overlaybar.xml
- Mac: [Applications]/Second Life/skins/xui/en-us/panel_overlaybar.xml (don't have a mac with SL installed right now, so could be different, file should be the same)

- Edit this file using text editor.

Look for:

<button bottom="1" follows="left|bottom" font="SansSerif" halign="center" height="20"
label="Release Keys" label_selected="Release Keys" left="229"
name="Release Keys" scale_image="true"
tool_tip="A script has taken control of your keys. Click here to release them."
width="102" />

- Remove the part
- Save and start SL.

Button should be gone.


Oooh! I wonder if we can remove the 'IM Received' button too!
Damanios Thetan
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02-08-2008 03:31
From: 2k Suisei
Oooh! I wonder if we can remove the 'IM Received' button too!


Should be possible, same file:

<button bottom="1" follows="left|bottom" font="SansSerif" halign="center" height="20"
label="IM Received" label_selected="IM Received" left="0"
name="IM Received" scale_image="true"
tool_tip="You have an instant message pending. Click to show IMs."
width="102" />

Most of the SL interface is changeable using the XUI files.
Watch out with removing some elements though. Some viewer code relies on it being there and crashes SL if it's gone. (E.g. some of the code in the communication windows can't be changed without crashing SL)
Also some elements still look like they're hardcoded inside the viewer (for example the snapshots previews) and can't be removed/changed.
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Morwen Bunin
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02-08-2008 03:34
I really have to try this tonight at home. But to be safe I will make a backup of the mentioned file before editting it.

Morwen.
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