secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Add Relog/Restart menu item to the viewer

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enhancement maint-pe team:viewer UX design
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Description

Can we add a menu item to perform relogging, so all we have to do is to just wait until we're back in-world?

Or at the very least, a Restart menu item which will return us to the login screen.

https://secondlife.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/add-relog-restart-menu-item-to-the-viewer

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the viewer's menu handling and login flow from the in-world state; the work is done when a menu item either relogs and returns the user in-world or restarts to the login screen, with the chosen behavior verified.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop, game-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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