[Bf-committers] "Blender, an appraisal from a first time user"

[Alberto Torres]

I've been an experienced Blender user for 10 years, and from time to time I
still use the "open..." dialog by mistake to open other files that are not
blend.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Xavier Thomas <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And what about the usability issue for first time users that cannot figure
> out how to open a video in Blender and start editing it?
>
> - Maybe detecting first launch and proposing a "tour" of the interface for
> basic functionalities.
> - Or a prompt in the splash screen asking what task the user want to do and
> directly jump to a specific screen layout.
> - Or a better error message when opening an wrong file instead of " File
> format is not supported in..." it could be something like: "The selected
> file is not a Blender project file. This look to be a movie/image file, try
> opening it in Blender UV/Image editor."
>
>
> 2016-01-05 9:57 GMT-02:00 Mikhail Rachinskiy <wellmaderice at gmail.com>:
>
> > >
> > > …it would prompt the user to save the file (as with File -> Save As)
> >
> >
> > If there will be a tooltip explaining whats going on I think beginners
> wont
> > be confused, at least this is some kind of visual feedback.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mikhail Rachinskiy
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