> Text not icons
I don't understand this one. Which part of the UI is this a problem
with that it isn't in Softimage?
You have the shelf at the top of the UI, but that's just shortcuts to
things that are already in the menu. Hide the shelf if you don't want
it (there is also a shelf in XSI)
For the viewport ("panel") toolbar, if you don't use it, you can hide
it (shift+ctrl+m) - these are all shortcuts to the items also in the
menu. It certainly would not make sense to turn that into text
buttons, although they should be generally fewer and bigger buttons
there.
But again these are shotcuts to the text menus. Everything is
menu-based in Maya.
