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meade paravane - 30/Apr/07 08:05 AM
Changed summary to describe the problem.
Also, this should probably be a vwr issue instead of a svc one.
This image is stored on your computer. Your family can see what you were doing by looking for that image in the Application Settings directory. It's stored as a .BMP file. They could also look through your SL cache to figure out what you were up to, although this is slightly more difficult.
If you don't want them seeing anything inappropriate in this image, log out while facing a white wall. I personally don't like the image in the first place, I'd rather just switch it off. As my home image never updates, even when I log-in to home it doesn't update it. And I don't really like have a low-res, crappy snapshot stretched onto my screen in the first-place.
The option to just turn this off would be fine for me, and I suppose good for any privacy issues. Lex, that would be fine if client never crashed, or connections were never lost except by a user's choice. Unfortunately, it does. The ability to turn off actual exit image or have a nice SL logo default until password is checked would be extremely consistent with the Disclosure Community Standard.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [sldev] SVC-150 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:07:06 -0400 From: Hamncheese <me@hamncheeseomlet.com> To: <sldev@lists.secondlife.com> I'm looking for discussion from the list on possible implementation on SVC-150 http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-150 (Login picture changes to user-specific before password check is done) The last screenshot is queued up in init_start_screen and the viewer window is displayed long before the successful login response comes back. So based on the above and the comments in jira, I'm treating this as a feature request and want give the user explicit control over the display of the final snapshot as a splash screen. I'm doing this by storing a persisted bool setting in gSavedSettings and then hooking that up to a checkbox in Preferences. Default is true/checked. If the user unchecks the box, then no snapshot is shown when logging in and on the flip side, no final snapshot is taken when logging off. However after playing around with this, I realized that screen real-estate on Preferences was fairly precious for what amounts to fairly obscure feature. I had other thoughts such as adding it to the startup screen or making it a debug menu item. I like the debug menu item idea but you can't set it until you've actually logged in. Displaying on startup screen would be confusing for new users and in the way for most users. Any thoughts, ideas, ymbc, etc? Cheers, Ham I think the description should really be "Login picture should be optional for privacy reasons". It doesn't really matter whether it's displayed immediately after you enter the name and the password or whether it's not displayed until the password is verified, really, since (as Lex noted) it's available on the computer regardless. It should be possible to prevent it from being taken at all.
I think that it should be a preference option, "take new 'login picture' when logging out". Possibly: * below "show start location on login screen" * in the "communication" tab under "logging" * or even in a new "privacy" tab Just encrypt it (using a decent algorithm) using the user's password. If they enter the wrong password, decryption fails, and the snapshot is not shown. If they changed their password on a different computer, the image will fail to load for their first login, but will go back to normal after that. No big loss.
This way, the purpose, providing something for users to see during the load, is not lost, as decryption could be attempted before even contacting the servers, but privacy is still maintained. Also, regarding Haravikk's post: You can update your home image by using 'Set Home Here' again after teleporting home, or even, if you wish, replace it with whatever image you want in the Application Data folder. Haravikk Mistral in reference to your post 'home image' is only changed when you 'set your home'
Now onto this issue. No need to add more bloat code imho. Get a image you are pleased with then log out and set the 'screen_last' file located in (under windowsXP atleast) C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\SecondLife\<usernamehere> to one you want. then right click on the screenshot 'properties' and set the file to 'READ ONLY' that will lock your logout screenie to that image till you unset the RO perm. Ive tested this a few times. and as anyone else said anyone can see it so setting it to a 'acceptable image' and setting ReadOnly on it leaves you with that image. simple fix |
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Login picture changes to user-specific before password check is done
