Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:06:08 -0500 From: "R Dicaire" <kritek@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re changing from vista Message-ID: <e754e90811161206n3ceee692yb4eded5beee27c62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081116193828.GB7878@comcast.net> References: <491D59D3.8080809@spansurf.com> <20081114203914.W14337@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <491DDD56.1040001@ccstores.com> <20081114225626.GA56663@icarus.home.lan> <20081116193828.GB7878@comcast.net>
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote: > Users can also contribute by helping to refine the requirements for > software. For example, my son is an animator and he and I have often > discussed various graphics tools. In his opinion, the Gimp is a > powerful tool which provides almost every tool or technique an artist > might want, but it's unusable because its user interface doesn't reflect > the way artists actually do their work. He says this isn't just that > they're used to Photoshop or whatever; there's something about the > nature of the task that the Gimp fails to accommodate in a natural, > effortless way. He says the Gimp feels like a tool designed by software > engineers rather than artists. Interesting analogy, and your overall point makes sense. Here's a question regarding the attitude towards moves to new software and the expectation it behave like $OTHER_PROGRAM. Photoshop had to be learned to be used initially. The questions are, does a user *want* to spend the time to learn a new interface? What do they gain by doing so? Is there a commercial drive behind the change?
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