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[Karl Kühberger]

Hi Roger,

probably the difference is more like between right- and
left-steering cars - car-drivers from various islands (big
and little ones) may think right-steering is revolutionary ;-)

regarding to the file-selector I agree with you, even there
are features in the dialogue-boxes of osx, linux and windows
which are quite helpful, like:

- jumping to an item by pressing the initial letter
- columns mode
- search function
- back- and forward-buttons (not only the cryptic "P")

maybe the best would be further using the blender file-dialogues,
but improve it, build in some functions known from "standard" dialogues
and let the layout look more "standard"-conform.

blender has indeed many distinctive methods and some of them are
really helpful in terms of ergonomy and fast workflow.
but why not making blender better using more stuff like double-click,
context-menues and drag&drop?
why not put materials or textures to objects from a
material/texture-editor (or outliner with previews)?
why use the cryptic "fake user" instead of just keep all
materials/textures and allow the user to
delete materials/textures in a material/texture editor (with the
additional feature of deleting all unused materials/textues)?
the second example shows that blender sometimes forces to think the
user of things which should not be necessary.
another example is the missing "save, cancel or discard" question after ctrl-q.
or why not integrate a save button in the render-window?
these are only a few examples where blender could be more intuitive AND faster.
I agree that blender should not get rid of all its really fantastic
concepts, like the non-overlapping windows and others,
but it also should be open for other concepts, because some of theme
are excellent. blender could use the best of
both.

Karl


2008/10/22 Roger <hovergo at net-tech.com.au>:
> <snip>
> People are complaining a lot about
>  > selection by right-click. But this is not the only thing. Beginners
>  > expect Blender to work like almost any other program, the expect
>  > double-click, drag and drop, standard file-dialogue and other
>  > almost standard stuff.
> </snip>
>
> This, to me is a complaint similar to gearboxes in cars.
> Holden, Ford, Audi, Volvo, Mercedes, Isuzu vehicles all have different gear
> stick movements -- no one complains, they just learn to drive the vehicle.
> I'm beginning to think that inability or rather not really wanting to learn is
> the key to this discussion.
> The developers could make Blender so similar that the complaint would be " well
> there's no difference -- so why use it "
>
> To solve this easily we need a simple note on startup:
>  "BLENDER IS NOT Autocad, max, maya, etc. It Has New, Revolutionary,
> Distinctive Methods of Manipulating Objects which once learned will increase
> your abiltiies.
> Please take the time to learn this modern system"
>
> They will or they won't, either way the complaints stop.
> In short Advertise the differences, Put the differences into the consciousness
> of the newbie.
>
> Roger
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