scott wrote:
>> It's still too little to bother, I guess.  You talk like as if 
>> pressing space and being presented with a graphical menu that works 
>> like any other graphical menu you ever saw is the end of the world.
> 
> It doesn't.  The menu disappears seemingly randomly if you stray too far 
> from it, the menu order is reversed if you open it too near the bottom 
> of the window, the menu gets clipped by the edge of the window rather 
> than being display on top of it, it doesn't respect the user setting for 
> sub-menu open delay, it doesn't reopen at the new point if you press 
> space again. It's all the little features that OS designers spend so 
> much time over to make life easier for everyone, and then some developer 
> comes along and says "nah, we're just going to use our own menu system".

Would you care to complain about that to web developers of javascript 
menus too?

Let's face it:  the future means our platform of choice will be nothing 
but a receiver for foreign programming running on custom cross-platform 
engines, be it web, XUL, XAML, Java, .NET, Windows apps via Wine on 
Linux/Mac etc.

Blender is not at all like any Gnome app on Linux either.  And today's 
Linux noobs just prefer to be underpowered with notepad-on-crack gedit 
than to be superman with vim or emacs.  It sucks seeing great tech 
misused/misunderstood...

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