Greetings,

Johann

E.g. you have a script that listens to
/1 jump2cam

then you make a gesture that - by pressing a function key - just says jump2cam on channel 1, without animation or sound.

We want to keep this functionality.

So I would to restrict the disable gestures settings to disabling sounds, animations and chat on channel 0. But let us keep chat on other channels.

I use gestures for valid reasons, to turn abbreviations into actual sentences I use alot for my business and day to day life. The thought that I could be on a client's parcel and that they have turned off gestures and as a result see /k1 is sort of scary.

I also know of disabled people who have turned common words and phrases into gestures to say time and effort, they too will be affected.

Yes, there are good gestures even for channel 0, so such a ban where the land can be set as gesture free will cause confusion, and issues for those with valid reasons and uses.

They are darned annoying though, I give you that. What I do is mute the person who is making the excessive noise, it's just a few mouse clicks.

1. do plain chat
2. play a sound
3. play an animation

in combination. It's the same as if you were to manually type some chat, then doubleclick on a sound icon, then doubleclick on an animation icon.

So, what you're literally asking is a parcel setting that:

disables clients from sending sound actions.
disables clients from sending chat.

The first would be easy to do of course. The latter is impossible without changing the client internally to mark gesture chat in a specific way, which also means that option would have zero effect on anybody using an older client or a modified client.

Just trying to explain the mechanics here.

My tip:
just mute the offending people, or kick them off the land if they continue to spam.

The problem is, that a gesture is just a combination of chat, sound and animation. Each of them are then send normaly to the server, and distributed by the server as chat, sound and animation. In result, its not possible, even with SLProxy to mute gesture chat, as the chat is not flaged as a gesture.

So this Jira is lot more complex to implement, than most think. It requires an SL protocol extension to flag chat, sound and animations as gestures in the client, it needs a server extension to handle those flags and to redistribute them to other clients, and it needs an other client patch to allow a 'mute gesture chat', 'mute gesture sound' and 'mute gesture animations'.

I dont even know, if its possible to extend the SL protocol in a way, that once the server was updated, not half of SL players still using the old client crash. I voted for this Jira anyway, because gesture spam is an evil topic!

ciao,Kephra

I'd like to just not hear them or see the chat text in the first place.

If you find an av obnoxious, mute them. They will find a way to annoy you. And even in a PG sim, you shouldn't have your children nearby; you really can't exercise prior restraint on everything anybody says.

Nor will disabling gestures altogether prevent people from playing sounds. Nor will disabling scripting.

this gestures can be a way to show some "live" at your venue.
When you disable them, you may have a buch of "zombies" at your concert or your party.
We have a officer at our events, who can keep this in line, when it goes too wild. This is a kinda compromise.