The CHUI issues are now coming to light thanks to Linden Lab implementing CHUI in the beta viewer, there are a couple of good Jira’s on CHUI:
The first issue deals with an issue whereby when you tear a chat window off from Chui, typing into the torn off window results in the main communications window having a lot of wasted space, this is definitely true. The screen space is indeed wasted in this scenario.
The second issue is a list of a general observations and is a very good Jira. There are a number of issues here, and presented in a good fashion.
On top of that there are a couple of threads in the forum on Chui:
Both threads show pro’s and cons of the CHUI features and there’s some good input there, again we see good collaboration.
Personally I’d like to see the waste of screen space highlighted in the Jira on BUG-1820 addressed, it does become a massive waste of screen space. I’d also like to be able to move my local chat window to the toolbar, rather than having it in the conversation window, local chat is a different beast in many ways and should be treated as the different beast it is.
CHUI has some really nice features, the conversation log that shows your conversations in the last 30 days is extremely handy once you login. The new chat history feature is a superb way of reading chat histories. The way to see what or whom you’ve muted is very good. There are undoubtedly positives in this feature but there are also negatives.
A good healthy discussion about this before it hits the main viewer should be actively encouraged by Linden Lab. Collaboration, again, is good, a message LL’s nerfed Jira misses.