[Bf-committers] Current state of Blender's user experience

[blubee blubeeme]

To all complaining about standards and conventions, have any of you
actually submitted any code to blender, even for review?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, 20:17 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Wrong link!
> https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/725659831978315776
>
> -Ton-
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation, Producer Blender Institute/Studio
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>
> > On 28 Apr 2016, at 14:13, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a quote from the famous Dutch painter Mondrian on a wall in a
> train station here:
> > https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/725658288638025728
> >
> > A great life motto. :)
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> > Chairman Blender Foundation, Producer Blender Institute/Studio
> > Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> >
> >> On 28 Apr 2016, at 13:59, hewi jupama <hewi at jupama.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >>
> >> I promised myself not to post before I got "things done", but it is
> stronger than me
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> Blender is "a bit different" and breaks some conventions
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> That is why they are called conventions, so people would or should not
> break them.  Conventions should not be broken!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> changes to the usual ways of doing stuff, but I think that is also
> where lies its biggest strength.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Deciding to make the **** click to select, really slows users down.
> Not only beginners, but also more experienced users.  This is not a
> strength :(
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> Ordered by Rating:
> >>
> >>>> ------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>>> 1.
> >>
> >>>> 2. UI does not comply to industry quasi standards.
> >>
> >>>> 3.
> >>
> >>>> 4.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Mmmmmh, maybe you should stick to conventions and usual ways of doing
> things.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> with too many inactive stakeholders and not enough active
> contributors.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> However dedicated and passionate I am about blender and it's code,
> however much I would like to 'be bored to bits on this desolated island and
> finally have nothing else to do but stamp code', however much I would like
> to get ideas and my support out there, however much I would really want to
> finally commit my first bug fix, ... inevitably and unfortunately it is
> very hard to combine with full time personal/professional life (and the
> many other projects).  Just to say that, even though sometimes we are
> silent and seemingly inactive, we are still actively contributing (even
> though maybe not in hard code) :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> It's Ton, not Tom. ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> lol
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> regards
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hewi
> >>
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