[Opensim-dev] thinking about a viewer

[John Sheridan]

My vote for revolution.  Please, please, please... Let us move away from 
these clunky gawd awful LL viewers and finally cut the umbilical to SL 
once and for good.

Viva la OpenSimulator!  :)

  - John / Orion Pseudo

On 08/06/2014 01:38 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 14-08-04 09:08 PM, Mister Blue wrote:
>> I've been seriously thinking about creating a new viewer project. But 
>> with
>> Maria's survey[1] and all the different virtual world announcements
>> happening and the lively OpenSimulator vs Unity discussion on the
>> opensim-user list, I'd like to open up the discussion to the 
>> OpenSimulator
>> development community[2].
> [snip]
>> What do you  think? Evolution or revolution?
>
> At the moment I'd vote for reliable and stable rather than either 
> evolution or revolution. With most viewers sharing a certain amount of 
> common ancestry all the ones I have tried for the Linux platform have 
> problems.
>
> I used to like Singularity. It was good back in the early 4000 
> revisions but I have had issues with it since it hit the 5000+ 
> revision. Common issues with viewers is a tendency to crash when 
> switching workspaces, voice chat from other avatars can start breaking 
> up after a while making it impossible to understand what is being 
> said, and the worst problem is the viewers that push the CPU to near 
> 100% (often while caming around) which leads to lag or to practically 
> locking up the viewer and preventing one from doing almost anything in 
> it.
>