As a newbie user of leo and being my main intention to use Leo to create Maya and Max scripts and some c++ code I will offer my opinion. Blender is well know in the computer graphics industry to have a particularly hard to learn interface. This is mainly because it differs so much from Blender's competition, Maya, max and XSI which copy each other interface to some degree. As I start using Leo I understand the thinking behind it and I have no problem with Easter Eggs or Programmer features, in fact I welcome them as they will make my work faster in the future. Now having said that I am struggling making a dark theme for Leo and making the coloring to show as I like it for the programming languages I will be using. Sometimes having many example files for different tasks makes easy to learn how to use an application and I think lacks those. My 2 cents. Happy to have found Leo and looking forward to making heavy use of it
Max On Monday, 9 December 2013 08:05:25 UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
