I've just completed Andrew Price's superb discussion of Blender's UI (User 
Interface).

I highly recommend that all of Leo's core developers view them, and that 
you *watch them in order*.  Andrew's videos are worth *careful* study.  
I've made copious notes which I'll share with you later.

Part 1: (32 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIedljapuz0
Part 2: (32 minutes) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2106536565&feature=iv&src_vid=UWacQrEcMHk&v=yIedljapuz0
Part 3: (The proposal, 19 minutes) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWacQrEcMHk
Part 4: (Retrospective of proposal, 28 minutes main presentation) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw

The main points I took away:

1. Leo is *much* simpler than Blender.
2. Leo's ui isn't all that bad, especially compared with Emacs and vim.
3. There is a giant hole in Leo's ui that obscures points 1 and 2 and make 
Leo much harder for newbies to use than it should be.

There is no way (just from the user interface) for a newbie to know how to:

a) Create an external file (!!!) or
b) Import external files into Leo (!)

This hole seems more serious than the broken find tab.  Happily, there are 
*easy* fixes for it.

I've got to go now.  I'll discuss the video, the problems and their 
solutions in much more detail later.

Edward

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