On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:17, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
And if you read the thread again, you will notice that Kenneth claims that Blender is far better than anything in the closed source world. Even with a bad, unintutive UI. Please read the complete sentence first.
Bad, Unintuitive UIs drive away people and everyone keeps wondering why there aren't Linux desktops around. Given a choice between Debian and Ubuntu what do people prefer? I thought the whole point of the demonstration was to _entice_ people into using OSS based alternatives and not /drive them away/ with horrible horrible UIs.
By your standard, Exchange is a good MTA, but Postfix and Exim are not.
vi and emacs have their own strengths (and weaknesses). Which is why we have vigor and vim.
You are twisting my words. I agreed that blender was powerful BUT it would be yet more powerful IF it had a good UI. And people would actually be MORE OPEN to using it in the first place...
There is that old quote from Usenet: The only intutive UI is the nipple. Everything else is learnt.
Well UIs that we see here arent a nipple. Thats for sure!
The more powerful the application, the more complex the interface. Photoshop has a complex interface. For that matter, so does MS Word. That 99% of people never go beyond a few buttons (which they have been taught to use) and never actually use the power of the office suite is not the fault of the "excellent" UI.
Complex doesn't mean crappy / unusable!
You have the bias of coming from a MS Windows environment and want something similar. I have the bias of coming from a Unixy environment, and I want something similar. And no, terminal.app is simply not a replacement for a bunch of xterms.
Excuse me, I might not be born in the UNIX environment but I have been using it for a pretty long time. And as a proud owner of 3 machines exclusively running Linux I can say with enough confidence that I dont have bias against "UNIXy" environments. Its your kind of arrogance, ignorance and refusal to accept the shortcomings of the OSS UIs that are hindering real progress.
I'm _not_ even remotely implying that *nix UIs should resemble M$ Windoze if that is what ticked you off...
ciao!