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You don't dare to suggest that they should change Blender UI so that grandmas all over the world can produce their own 3D content!

I don't know anything about CAD so you can rest assured that you won't see me ever complaining on a AutoCAD forum demanding Autodesk to change its UI so that I can design something on it.

All 3D programs in the world have a complex interface with a steep learning curve because these tools are very powerful and are intended to be used mainly by people that did bother to read the fine manual at least once. Of course, it doesn't hurt if one have some artistic sensibility as well. Not everybody can work for Pixar or even capable of rendering some primitives inside a box, you know?

What pisses me me off the most is that I don't see anyone complaining about Maya's or Lightwave's highly counterintuitive but efficient UIs, but somehow they feel entitled to ask Blender devs to change its UI because it is OSS, I guess.

Not to mention that there are lighter 3D packages out there that are better suited to people that have no idea what a mesh or a vertice means in 3D such as Xara3D - formerly Corel Xara - and others that probably cover their needs (such as the usual 3D metallic logo spinning in empty space to put on MySpace or their blogs) but for some unknown reason they want to go with the full blown pro app that they barely understand what it does.

Blender UI is probably the most productive interface of all times once you learn how to use it. I think that the only app that has a workflow that can possibly match and/or overcome Blender in speed is Wings3D.

Enough with this HIG stupidity! Leave it confined to GNOME, brain-dead end-users applications and the likes and leave the Pro apps alone to the professionals. The day that the Blender developers start catering to this sort of requests will be the day that I and many blenderheads that I know will stop using it!

Edited 2007-10-25 18:40