Your feature requests

Hi, as i said earlier I would like to make a poll of what features Linux users want to see. Or what bugs should be resolved. I did not list specific bugs. I did mention some weaknesses that are more than just bugs or big known bugs. See it as you like. Please add your comments to this thread.

I will only go into linux specific things here, listing points where the Linux Alpha lacks features compared to the original Windows implementation:

Must have:
- Copy & Paste is a *must* for all serious work you want to do in SL, it can't be too hard to do
- Fix the leftover text on multiline floating text and avatar names, should be trivial
- Upload Textures / Animations / Pictures is missing badly
- Detect the correct amount of RAM on your graphics card
- The auto update message should definitively state, that we have to download a new version from the website as opposed to offer the Mac client
- Alphalayer fix (I heard it works? Need to check on that.)

Nice to have:
- Sound is not really necessary but nonetheless nice to have, it adds to the experience.
- The keyboard should work the same way as it does everywhere else (WASD, Hotkeys etc.)
- Shiny objects ... that would be great! Not necessary either but it's eye candy
- Screenshots to disk, for now I just use ksnapshot

Don't care:
- Client side auto update (see above)
- I can live without video support

Mhh ... a Spell Checker, wow ... that would kill me in-world

Actually I should put some answers here myself


1) My number one is sound. With this I miss on first place the keyboard typing sound. Otherwise you dont hear somebody starting to type. We have disabilities with that. Also sure listening to radio streams. I think i could live without all this giggles and baybe laughters.

2) Second definitely is Copy & Paste and keyboard settings.

3) Interaction with webbrowser. As this is widely used - this is related to copy and paste - so I would summarize this "integration of the client".

Oh I did forget one thing: "full screen mode". I admit that i am a FS lover. I like to dive in the experience. We also discussed this on some of our meetings. I am using client also often in windowed mode but I rather see SL as a possible ALTERNATIVE INTERFACE not just like something like a movie viewer.

I dont knoiw much about full screen mode. I know the Amiga had "Screens" that you could switch. These were maybe like different X display. So I think I also very rarely used fullscreen on Linux. Hoe does this work commonly? Is this another display like :1 and :2 ?

BTW: Can I copy and paste in X11 between different displays? I think I never tried that...

For KDE - Set your task bars to allow applications to cover them, set the SL client rez to the same as your screen, hold META (or ALT) and drag the client up slightly. Full screen.

uhm I think this is not IT.

Fullscreen mode on X11 usually means a window without window decorations and set "always on top". There is no such thing as an Amiga like "Screen". Different X-Displays would work, too, but this costs memory. Copy / Paste over display boundaries is something I never tried yet

Being able to start SL at all would be nice.

Sound, copy/paste, and keyboard shortcuts are what I want to see. Ideally, I'd like to be able to customize the keyboard shortcuts. (I'm learning the dvorak layout, so WASD doesn't do me much good...)

I'd like to see other bugfixes as well, of course, but they're all pretty obvious. The duplicated/multiple text thing is pretty annoying. Uploading is another obvious one. And having URLs open a browser would be nice. Ok, I'll stop now.

Recognition of System Memory, too! So that the cache algorithm works.

I just want sound. That's the only thing that's keeping me from working in linux really. Streaming sound, typing sound, the sounds my girl makes in bed.... >3

I'd also like user mappable keys so you can decide what goes where. This would deal with the hotkey issue and make everyone happy.

Can you remap keys? Most things involving ALT are already being used by Gnome. That's my only beef so far.

No, you can't remap keys yet. For now you'll have to tell Gnome not to use the ALT key but, say, the left Windows key for example. I'm pretty sure you can configure this somewhere inside of Gnome. Maybe a Gnome expert can help out here.

So where is the one who said a spellchecker would be important? LOL.

To stop GNOME grabbing Alt, click Desktop, then open up the preferences/control panel, and choose "Windows", then tell it to use the "Super" key instead of Alt. The change will take effect instantly.

Sound in SL is really two separate things: The event sounds and the streaming support. But they should probably be implemented together, so never mind.

About the Alt key: I'm not sure what the "proper" way to control the client is, but I often hold down Ctrl and Alt while mousing around or editing things. Perhaps that has the same effect as Alt is supposed to have? It does make the window manager (Metacity) ignore the mouse events.