Let’s Play Pretend
At heart, I suppose I’m still an SL™ fangirl. ;)
But, I still feel like someone completely peed in my cheerios over the past few days. Of course, it was really a combination of things. Needing to create a special charm bracelet on a deadline may have had something to do with that. I love making things - but when things won’t rez it’s more than a smidge frustrating. That, paired with customer reports of “broken” items, and folks ordering me around rather than asking, “Please help?” did nothing for my increasingly sour mood.
Anyway, moving on. Pretending that never happened. Erasing it from history!
So, it seems that Linden Lab™ has purchased XStreetSL - kudos to Apotheus Silverman & co for making a product stellar enough that Linden Lab™ took notice. I sincerely hope that things will remain positive overall in terms of XStreet. I imagine that the Sheep made a decent sum on the buyout (and imminent destruction of) OnRez. Somewhere in the FAQ or the press release regarding this, Linden Lab™ asked for us to perhaps list some of the things we preferred in OnRez that is lacking or missing in XStreetSL. So here follows my wishlist:
Batch Editing: I appreciate that XStreetSL implemented the template system, however, particularly in Firefox, that system can be a bit flaky. Sometimes it takes me MANY clicks or a full on page refresh to get that template link to actually open anything up. If I have 10 items in different colors that are all going to have the same price, similar (or downright same) descriptions, the same permissions, the same category listing, let me set all those things at once. Leave the items “unlisted” until they are finalized, but for the love of all that is sacred, please let me batch edit!
The entire listing/merchant backend: I love the way that OnRez does their item configuration. There is a basic list of items, and each item has an “edit” link, which opens that item’s listing properties right there in the same page. Additionally, I love the way that OnRez allows you to make use of the textures for an item right in that item’s box. The in-world vendor system is wonderful from OnRez. Please find a way to integrate their style of handling these things into XStreetSL. Please?
Aside from those things, I actually like XStreetSL just fine. ;) And I could live without the “entire merchant backend,” I guess, but batch editing. Please. If I must choose one, that’s the biggie.
I’m still not 100% sure how I feel about this particular move on Linden Lab™’s part. I feel that it’s monopolistic and possibly going to generate a bit of user unease… well, has generated user unease. Then again, they manage to keep some of us coming back for more even when it’s downright impossible to get anythign to work. ;)
