On 06/07/06 19:42 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 06 July 2006 19:16, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Not UI, featureset. The FOSS world _is_ hampered in printing by CMYK patents held by Adobe. Blender has one of the worst UIs for a new user, but for someone who learns that UI, it is far more powerful than anything else. Like mutt, vi or emacs!.
Ermm...do you like to contradict yourself? Your first part is simply contradicting with the second part. Incase you didn't get it, you first say that UI is not a part of the problem and then you go ahead and say Blender has one of the worst UIs. So UI *is* a part of the problem :)
And if you read the thread again, you will notice that Kenneth claims that Blender is far better than anything in the closed source world. Even with a bad, unintutive UI. Please read the complete sentence first.
By your standard, Exchange is a good MTA, but Postfix and Exim are not.
vi and emacs have their own strengths (and weaknesses). Which is why we have vigor and vim.
There is that old quote from Usenet: The only intutive UI is the nipple. Everything else is learnt.
The more powerful the application, the more complex the interface. Photoshop has a complex interface. For that matter, so does MS Word. That 99% of people never go beyond a few buttons (which they have been taught to use) and never actually use the power of the office suite is not the fault of the "excellent" UI.
You have the bias of coming from a MS Windows environment and want something similar. I have the bias of coming from a Unixy environment, and I want something similar. And no, terminal.app is simply not a replacement for a bunch of xterms.
Devdas Bhagat