CHUI Updated And Improved

Back on October 23rd I took a brief look at the new Communication Hub User Interface Project Viewer. At the time there were a few issues with it, but one of the issues was that the IM window looked just the same as the Chat History window, that has now changed. The IM window still looks like the IM Window .. as one would expect, however the chat history now looks like the IM window but with pages to go back and forth, so you can view your chat history. I’ll explain with pictures:

IM Window

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Traditional IM Window

Chat History With Pages

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New Chat History

Note the pages indicator, so now chat history also looks like a chat history!

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A Very Brief Look At CHUI

So after yesterday’s announcement from Linden Lab, I downloaded the Conversation Hub User Interface (CHUI) project viewer and installed it…. as you do. I took a very brief look at it, unlike Inara Pey, I don’t have the patience to do in depth meaningful viewer reviews. Actually Inara has taken a brief look at CHUI here.

However I can write a few words and show pictures, hurrah! Now the first thing I noticed upon login was that my notifications where were they usually were:

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Notifications

However my instant messages were not, they were under the communicate menu under conversations and I wasn’t really alerted to this. At this stage, let’s remember that this is a project viewer:

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Communications Menu

Clicking on conversations, brought up my conversations! This is how I knew I had new messages, from groups and people, names removed to protect the innocent but the conversation is innocent:

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Conversations In Second Life CHUI

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