Turn off glowing outlines?

Is there a way to turn off the glowing outlines of selected or highlighted items? Thanks.

While at first my response to this idea was "why on earth would you want to do that?" it suddenly hit me... colour matching. I spend a lot of time trying to match the colours of prims to skins (not an easy task!)... and I have to click on and off the prim constructs over and over again to make the selection outlines go away.

is there a debug option to turn these on/off?

you can adjust UI settings. try my small input on SL UI link below

http://www.garhunt.com/hunter188/html/fun_with_sl_ui.html

Not to mention when you trying to precisely align two prims along a joint, the glow obscures the joint, making alignment hard.

Yeah um... we mean "on the fly"... knowing that you have something selected is very useful 95% of the time.. it's just once in a while we'd like to be able to hit CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-Something to hide them for a few seconds.

"on the fly"?

hmmm, in other words have LL provide the means instead of the user them self looking into the issue and fixing it.

Yes, that would be a great 'toggled' feature, but I personally also like to understand WHY the client does what it does or looks like how it looks.

I cringe every time LL introduces some new fangled 'fix' feature to the UI that 80% of the time is useless or buggy. but I wanted to atleast point out there are ways to control the UI on your terms and not LLs.

Speaking as someone who worries professionally about software usabiliy, your approach is something that I think of as being the UNIX/Linux mentality of the 1990s.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, as the continued growth of Linux shows. However, it is unreasonable to expect this approach to be acceptable to the majority of typical, non-technical users. Most experienced developers find many features for average users to be useless or unnecessary, but since the average users outnumber the developers and they don't find the features useless, their opinion is the one that counts.

Bugginess is a separate issue - you can't have any improvement without changing the code, and if your development process lacks quality, you'll introduce bugs, regardless of whether the change is UI related.

I appreciate the info you've put on your website, and may even make use of it myself. I'm just trying to give a broader perspective to usability issues.

no.. I just think your solution is too complex.. as it involves LOGGING OFF, changing files, logginf back on, making one edit, logging off, changing the files back, and logging back on.

Thanks for the information Hunter. I find it interesting and I will be making use of the resource. For this situation I would like to have the ability to toggle "on the fly" also. Thanks again.

You know, you almost make it sound like us old time *nix users are dirty or something. For shame.

Hi all

This is such an obvious thing to want to do I can't believe there isn't an option to do it - as and when required...

Another question to do with close up work for which there is probably no solution (?) - when I zoom right in and see my prim joint needs adjustment - I would like to be able to do the adjustment there and then and not have to zoom out again to find the coloured arrows... before anybody says use prim co-ords - I do if they are simple shapes I am joining...

I'll post this as a separate thread too - as it's a different topic and may be missed...

Thanks!

Cat x

I am pretty sure this setting can be adjust. on the fly. At work right now will look it up later tonight

Client/ Debug Settings/ SelectionHighlightThickness 0.00

Seeing the result of changing SelectionHighlightThickness requires restarting, doesn't it?

We all hate this when dealing with textures only it seems. What I thing would be great is when we select the select texture radial that the glowing edges automatically turn off and when we unclick the radial they come back on.

My wish for a long time.

Yes