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Monday, June 22, 2009

Well, this just takes the cake -- er, pie...

The new SL Release 1.23.4 may have fixed a lot of bugs, but for some reason, LL decided to shuffle the contents of the pie menu, for no good reason whatsoever. Why is this important? For one thing, users have grown used to entries in the pie menu being in certain places, and this will cause all sorts of mistakes as people click on the wrong entries by force of habit. Every manual and help machima will be out of date and will have to be redone if they are to avoid confusion (Torley is probably bursting into tears as he looks over the dozens -- if not hundreds -- of tutorial videos he's done).

But the biggest complaints are from designers and builders who suddenly have to drill down through extra layers of menu whenever they want to edit an object while it's being worn. Several have already said they consider it a show-stopper; there are a number of jura entries requesting a return to the old pie menu structure: particularly VWR-12946 and VWR-13320. 12946 has a couple of xml files that restore the old pie menu structure; these replace the installed files in the ...\SecondLifeReleaseCandidate\skins\default\xui\en-us\ program files directory. Be sure to rename the old files rather than deleting them in case you have to go back. And add your vote to the jura entries!

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