ImpDev Meetups/2009-09-29

Summary
ImpDev Meetup for September 29, 2009.


 * Imprudence 1.2 beta released yesterday. Feedback seems mostly good, aside from some icky bugs.
 * We need to find a more effective way to communicate changes in new versions, and differences between Imprudence and SL. The release notes aren't working, people don't read them.
 * More pictures would be good. We should take a snapshot of every new feature and UI change for each release.
 * Interactive tours would probably be more work than they are worth. Who uses tours anyway?
 * A menu search feature like Mac OS X has would be useful. Type in text matching a menu item, and it would show you where it is. Also have aliases, so typing "rebake" would show you "Edit &gt; Refresh Appearance" and tell you "This used to be called 'Rebake Textures'".
 * Popping up a notice that a menu or window has changed might help, but would be annoying.
 * We also need an in-viewer way to notify users of new versions. Probably a visual notice on the login screen.
 * McCabe has some improvements that he wants to make to the radar.
 * Indicating who is within chat range, probably using color or text after their name. Bold or italics have been tried and look bad.
 * Replacing the side buttons with a context menu. But how to add a context menu to a scroll list?
 * Object import should have just one menu item, and bring up a floater with options, like whether to upload textures or not (and show how much it would cost).
 * We should rename the menu items to be more clean in 1.2. Probably "Import Object" and "Import Object + Upload Textures", although the latter is pretty long.
 * By the way, it needs legal notices too, and a confirmation dialog before uploading textures.
 * We should be keeping track of things that need to be translated.
 * McCabe has started a wiki page: Features needing translation.
 * Lilly Zenovka is willing to do some French translations.
 * Profile window is too narrow to fit all the tabs on some languages (e.g. French). Also some buttons are too narrow.