[vos-d] A poll?

[Peter Amstutz]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:51:09AM -0700, S Mattison wrote:
> What do you think Ter'Angreal would benefit the most from?
> 
> A- A name change. (Interreality, VOS, TerAngreal, what is what!)

I've actually started referring to the 3D application as 
"Interreality 3D" in new documents, since it's less confusing.

For those who are wondering about the name, Ter'Angreal is a reference 
to the "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan.  A 
"ter'angreal" in is a magical artifact, and some of the most important 
ter'angreal artifacts to the story are the ones that grant access to 
"Tel'Aran'Riod" which is the "World of Dreams".  The virtual world is an 
insubstantial, dreamlike place, so I felt that the browser that enables 
access to such a place is sort of a magical object.  

(There's also the Arthur C Clarke quote, "Any sufficiently advanced 
technology is indistinguishable from magic" :-)

> B- A new UI. (Get rid of the menu bar, make the status bar smaller,
> etc. Specify.)

The UI is basically a web browser and chat client smooshed together.  
More time has probably been spent fighting with WxWidgets layout issues 
than actually thinking about what the best UI would be.

> C- A wider variety of worlds.
> D- A world that you can add hyperlinks to, to your personal world.

This has always been an issue, but it would probably be more interesting 
to say a wider variety of /interesting/ worlds.  In particular, 
interactivity is interesting, but without dynamic scripting (server side 
or otherwise) it's a hassle since you need to write an Omnivos server 
plugin in C++.

> E- New Networking Code/framework.

I won't say much here except that pretty soon I'm going to sit down and 
start working on the design outline for s5 (which includes much more 
than just networking).  My plan is to then flesh out each section and 
post it to the list as a sort of RFC (Request For Comments) process, so 
everyone gets a chance to nit-pick my ideas :-)

> F- An icon. (I vote for http://chibitek.com/ter.ico ...)

Nice, but unfortunately we probably want an icon that looks good with as 
few colors as possible, and will look good when scaled up and down.

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