[Bf-funboard] Re: Large Blender UI improvement proposal

[William Reynish]

I urge you to use common sence.

Don't mean to be sarcastic, but what your argument
really seems to say:

That all functions in Blender should be called
"Function 1", "Function 2" and so on, the names are
not important because you can just go through
tutorials and find out what's what.

We could call the 3d window "Funny hat from Berlin",
or write all the names backwards with greek letters..


I know there IS a way to find out what a function
means, but try searching for "IPO" in the Blender
forum. It will take you quite a while to find what the
name stands for, and even longer to find out what it
is used for! Some functions though, are pretty much
impossible to find (like the Shift+F camera)in the
forums even if you KNOW it is there! Imagine being a
newbie... I mean, if you don't know what to search for
it will be much harder!

There is no reason why not to use naming that regular
people can understand. You shouldn't have to look
every feature up. A good interface is as
selfexplanetory as possible.

And you know what, most people will try tutorials, but
very few will try EVERY tutorial there is. You are
likely to go through a few and then experiment for
youself. Even if you think people should not, that is
what the majority do. And if the names are too far
away from what they can understand, most will not
continue learning the application, because the
interface starts to get in the way of your work (You
get stuck because the names don't make sence). Some
will continue however, and that is you and me and the
rest of us at elysiun. But we could be hundreds and
thousands more Blender users if a few things were
adressed.. 

You have got to remember the importance in choosing
good names. You see, what is the point in having
(insert great feature here) if only few knows it
exists?


This is not an attack on Blender in any way. I love
its features and I certinalty LOVE what has been done
in the 2.30 version. Just trying to make my point.


Alias, Softimage, Newtek and Discreet are about to run
for their money!


Regards.


 --- ph <hidarikiki@gmx.net> wrote: > David wrote:
> 
> I understand that sediment, but for the new user,
> things like "ipo" and
> "grabber" don't convey what they should. They serve
> as a point of
> frustration
> and confusion, not fond memories.
> -----------------------------------
> 
> One finished tutorial about either of those features
> should solve that
> naming problem
>
> 
> Is Grabber really so hard to memorize? And do you
> actually need to
> memorize it? Or do you use Gkey and don't care after
> 2 afternoons of doing
> tutorials ? Of course 'getting used' involves to use
> an application
> frequently.
> 
>   The newbie is not supposed to find out what
> grabber means, the newbie is
> supposed to learn it. So the case of you being a
> 'perpetual newbie' cannot
> be the naming. What is the real reason?
>
>
>
> If one has trouble of using 'Grabber', I recommend
> googling 'juicy blender'.
> 
> sorry
> 
> Peter
> 
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