The Communicaion Hub User Interface (CHUI) Project viewer has been updated, as announced by Viewer Linden. There have been improvements to the viewer, based on feedback and Jira reports, they include:
- Addition of notifications and notification preferences
- Smaller Conversations and People windows with increased resizability
- Adding more ways to get to certain functions. For example, we added a speak button to the Conversations window toolbar
- Improved performance
- Bug fixes and polish
If you’re not familiar with CHUI then I suggest you read the blog post from Linden Lab on 22nd October, which you can read here. The idea of CHUI is to improve inworld conversations as well as to allow you to more easily find old conversations, including chat histories, so you don’t need to file through your hard drive to find them, chat histories will appear in the viewer.
There’s also the conversation log, which should show you all conversations you have had in the last thirty days, including offline messages:
You just double click on one of the conversations you’ve had, if offline messages have been received, there will be an icon sitting next to the conversation to alert you to this fact. Now I’m only seeing conversations in the last thirty days for conversations via the CHUI viewer, so it’s a little sparse, but when this has been rolled out there should be a lot more conversations there. This could in theory mean you don’t need to send offline IM’s to email, which would reduce load on the servers. However, many issues can be dealt with offline, so offline IM’s to email is still going to be a popular function.
Another use case for the conversation log is finding out who sent you the offline, if like me, you have a memory like a sieve and need to root through your email to find them, this has advantages and should make life easier.
However this viewer is still relatively new and therefore issues are likely to arise, if you do take the plunge and find an issue then there’s some good news relating to the Jira for this viewer, it’s an open Jira and works like the Jira used to. This means you can read and comment on other reports. To see or report on Jira issues for the CHUI project viewer, go to: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/chuibug
The Chui project viewer is available for download from the alternative viewer page on the wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers .
… and how about the ability to put Friends contacts into logical groups like every other IM system?
-ls/cm
Being able to organise your contacts ino groups or distribution lists would be a major plus.
I found a new toolbar button in the latest Firestorm called “Contact Sets” which seems to approach this
Thanks Mal, I’ll take a look at that.