Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2005 01:31 PM
...and doesn't comply with neither Gnome nor KDE's usability guidelines.
I can´t help but laugh when I hear such a thing. Listen, HIG advocates, a 3D modelling program or a non linear video editor or any highly specialized application for that matter aren´t programs intended to be used by your grandma and they actually (God forbid!) requires its users to learn something before try to use. There is too much power and functionality that needs to be disposed somehow on the screen and guess what: most of the time, the creators have to ignore your worshiped HIG in order to get it done.
There is this trend on the OSS world lately that any program that don´t follow this or that HIG isn´t worth its salt and sometimes I wonder where this comes from. While I´ll agree that some sensibility is required when designing UI´s, and that some HIGs might even help it, its up to the developer (which is a specialist on his/her field otherwise he/she wouldn´t be capable of create a program to fullfill such task) decides what´s best for him/his creation.
I hear all the time people complaining about the Blender and Wings3D UIs´, but what these people fail to realize is that once you learn how the UI works for these programs, you´ll increase your productivity in 100%.
You can yell your HIG as much as you want for browsers, e-mail clients, RSS readers, IM clients, office suites and the likes but please leave it there.
I´ll concede for your remarks about Cinelerra UI, though: It really is awful. Definetely there is room for improvement on it.
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Re:Sorry, I don't agree with you.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2005 01:31 PMI can´t help but laugh when I hear such a thing. Listen, HIG advocates, a 3D modelling program or a non linear video editor or any highly specialized application for that matter aren´t programs intended to be used by your grandma and they actually (God forbid!) requires its users to learn something before try to use. There is too much power and functionality that needs to be disposed somehow on the screen and guess what: most of the time, the creators have to ignore your worshiped HIG in order to get it done.
There is this trend on the OSS world lately that any program that don´t follow this or that HIG isn´t worth its salt and sometimes I wonder where this comes from. While I´ll agree that some sensibility is required when designing UI´s, and that some HIGs might even help it, its up to the developer (which is a specialist on his/her field otherwise he/she wouldn´t be capable of create a program to fullfill such task) decides what´s best for him/his creation.
I hear all the time people complaining about the Blender and Wings3D UIs´, but what these people fail to realize is that once you learn how the UI works for these programs, you´ll increase your productivity in 100%.
You can yell your HIG as much as you want for browsers, e-mail clients, RSS readers, IM clients, office suites and the likes but please leave it there.
I´ll concede for your remarks about Cinelerra UI, though: It really is awful. Definetely there is room for improvement on it.
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