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! -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi P.S.: Dont take this personally. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
