Over the past 20+ years, the request from users with wide or multiple monitors to be able to 'take the floating windows out of the viewer' has been repeated, ad nauseam. We've been told repeatedly that this is simply not possible, as the 'floater' windows are being rendered by the viewer graphics pipeline.

So how about an alternative idea:

Let us (optionally) 'tear off' the 3D view, and render it/move it around, within it's own 'floater'.

This would allow users with multiple monitors to 'stretch the application' to utilize more of their screen real-estate, while at the same time allowing them to avoid the significant camera distortion and the avatar being placed 'helpfully' dead center of the screen at all times.

See example attached mock-ups, for how this might be implemented.

This feature, if also included with a 'minimize' function, could allow the standard second life viewer to act in a lower resource utilization mode, by effectively disabling the rendering of the 3D view while the floater was minimized.