Jacek Lives

• At first, I didn’t think the pie-menu-edit crash affected me, but I was able to crash when I tried the repro on the PJIRA.
• Just reading that there was a new crash when entering edit mode was enough to make my stomach tense up with anticipated guilt. I had a Victor Frankenstein moment: what sort of monster have I created and unleashed upon the world? Fortunately, I haven’t seen anything to suggest that it’s directly related to my patch. Phew.
• In this version, I can walk and fly around with the edit window still open! It doesn’t close (and thus forget what I had selected) just because my avatar moves anymore! Yay!
• Even when I uncheck Client > Character > Character Tests > Go Away/AFK When Idle, my avatar slumps over when I minimize the viewer or switch to a different virtual desktop (which effectively minimizes the viewer). In previous versions, my avatar would stay upright and respirating. This is a disaster: now people will be able to see how little attention I’m paying to what they are saying! (Seriously, though, I do a lot of multitasking between windows, so I hope this gets fixed soon.)

You might notice a new entry in the Tools menu for SL 1.17.1.0: Edit Linked Parts!

That’s right, the feature I added back in March and submitted to the JIRA has now made its way into the official client release! The menu item works just like the checkbox in the Build/Edit floater, allowing you to switch between editing whole linked sets of prims, or editing the individual members.

Not good enough? You want more?

Well then how about I tell you guys how you can add your very own keyboard shortcut… in just 3 easy steps?

1. Open the Second Life/skins/xui/en-us/menu_viewer.xml file in your favorite text or XML editor.
2. Go down to line 695 (or do a search for “Edit Linked Parts”) where it says shortcut="", and type in your shortcut between the quotation marks! For example, to bind it to Shift-L, you’d type in shift|L!
3. (Re)start Second Life, and enjoy!

A word about the format for shortcuts: Put the modifier keys first, separated by the pipe character, | (Shift-Backslash, above the Enter key). The standard order for modifiers is control|alt|shift, but I’m not sure the order matters too much. For Macs, “control” means the Command key.

Gwyn’s summary of the Workshop on Communication, Education and Teaching has got me thinking about education, and reflecting on my past experiences as an Instructor in Second Life.

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Hamlet Au of New World Notes has posted an interview with Daniel Linden regarding Linden Lab’s recently announced policy of censorship; I blogged about that announcement yesterday, as did a great many other concerned Residents.

In the interview, Daniel Linden describes the basis for Linden Lab’s policy decisions: the feedback from the “Community”:

The Community actively defines what is and is not acceptable in Second Life by providing feedback to Linden Lab via Abuse Reports, blog commentary, forum discussion, and other communication channels. Linden Lab sets standards and acts in-world according to the expressed wishes of the Residents.

If Linden Lab bases its policy on the feedback of Residents, then we need to make it perfectly clear that this intolerant policy is offensive to us, as free citizens of the world and the Grid.

In order to “express my wishes” as a Resident, I have filed an Abuse Report against Daniel Linden for his display of gross intolerance against specific groups based on sexual preference—a display which runs directly against the Community Standards’ tenet against intolerance.

If you care about this issue too, report Daniel Linden’s flagrant violation of the Community Standards and let Linden Lab know that you consider this gross intolerance to be an offensive behavior!