The Flat UI Viewer introduces early work on a refreshed user interface, along with a wide range of stability fixes, performance improvements, and usability updates.
As with all viewers, your feedback is especially valuable. Please share your thoughts and report issues through our Feedback Portal.
The Flat UI project includes steps toward a more readable, modern appearance:
Adoption of Google Inter typeface, designed specifically for UIs, which is more readable
Improved font scaling and layout handling
“Flat” visual design on buttons, tabs, and menus so labels are more readable
Blue highlight color to increase visibility of selected list items
New Login Screen
We’ve moved login fields to the left in a more standard arrangement, and simplified the screen, using tabs for categories of content rather than displaying it all on one screen in crowded, small text.
Voice Moderation
Have you heard? We’re adding Voice moderation along with hosting our own WebRTC voice solution! Authorized users will soon be able to moderate voice users on their own land.
Who can moderate:
Region owners and estate managers can moderate voice on parcels configured to use the region voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ disabled)
Parcel owners can moderate voice on parcels configured to use their own parcel voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ enabled)
If a parcel is owned by a group and uses its own voice channel, any group member with the ‘Moderate Group Chat’ ability can moderate
How to moderate:
Go to the location you wish to moderate, and ensure you are connected to spatial voice
Open the ‘Conversations’ floater, and right click on any username in the ‘Nearby chat’ list. If you have moderation ability, the ‘Moderation options’ menu will appear
Select the appropriate moderation action, which might include:
Mute everyone: mute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel. Note that this setting is ‘sticky’: late-joining avatars will also be muted.
Unmute everyone: unmute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel, so that they may speak if they wish.
Mute this participant: mute the selected avatar
Unmute this participant: unmute the selected avatar
Where to try moderation:
Moderation can currently be used on any region in Second Life!
The two parcels are owned by a publicly joinable group, which has been configured to allow for any member to moderate voice chat. Both parcels are configured to use their own parcel voice channel. Click the green orb for instructions.
The main parcel in ‘WebRTC Voice 1’ uses the region channel, and can only be moderated by the region owner or an estate manager.
Bug Fixes
We’ve made bold more bold with this latest build after good community Feedback.
Fixed a few places where text ran over instead of wrapping.