Micheal, It's clear that you have some beef with me and I understand that. I don't agree with a lot of the things you have said about me, but I won't argue about them with you since it's clear that we won't agree. I think I may have not made myself clear, which is a common problem that I have, so I will try to clear up some miscommunications that we may have had.
1) I don't want to fundamentally change Blender. I dislike a lot of the design decisions of Blender, this is true. But I also like a lot of the design decisions of Blender. For example, I agree with just about everything on the UI Paradigms wiki page<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/UI/UIParadigms>. Perhaps I'm so busy criticizing the things that I disagree with that I forget to mention the things I do well. This is my mistake. 2) I often have strong opinions and I love to debate. When I told Brecht that I disagreed with him, my intention was to start a healthy debate, that he may inform me why I was wrong and probably change my mind about one thing or another. To this end I would improve the proposal and learn something. I didn't mean that he was wrong or that I wouldn't listen to what he said, only that I disagreed, as I'm entitled to do. Often my strong opinions are interpreted as defiance on my part and this is another mistake which I make often. 3) Many of the Blender team and myself have a fundamental disagreement on the part of how to handle new users. Ton once said to me in IRC (paraphrased) "New users are an unknown quantity. Ignore then and focus on experienced users." This is an attitude that runs contrary to most of the designers I've learned from and worked with. I respect that Blender should be a tool for advanced users and I don't want to change that (please refer to #1). I only want to remove common frustrations and create methods for new users to become acclimated to Blender, ideally without getting in the way of expert users. I don't think that this is a zero-sum game, I think that features that are better for new users are also better for experts. I try to keep all of my work compatible with the expert user workflow. It's important to me as well as you that Blender remain a powerful tool for power users. I think that the two things are not mutually exclusive. Last) This thread is for giving feedback on my proposal. What's your feedback? Do you think that having this option for users is a bad one? Do you think that the existing toolbars serve this function better? Do you think my design choices are poor? I created this thread for feedback, and I would appreciate yours. -- Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez [email protected] twitter: VinoBS 919.757.3066 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
