On 10/7/2011 12:10 PM, Stephen wrote:
> I'll top post as I'm sure nobody wants to read all that again.
>
> What do you mean?
>
Sorry, much of that was a rant, attached to an initial joke. lol The 
joke being that you old fogies sometimes seem to think toolbars are 
silly, and memorizing 8,000 keyboard combination makes more sense. Some 
of us just don't think that way.

In the case of Blender pre-v2.59, it was like being handed a really odd, 
and complicated, looking tool, and having to spend most of your time 
learning how to hold it properly, which levers do what, etc., when all 
you bloody need to do is remove a screw.

I.e., for someone just trying to "do" something with it, it was a bit 
like the combination Swiss knife, bug zapper, tea stirrer and pez 
dispenser, which, if you hold it wrong, will shave your eye brows off, 
clip the end from your nose, and set the rest of your hair on fire. Or, 
just not do anything useful at all.

There seems to be a really bad habit for this sort of software to get 
written, and the book I just got from Amazon, which ironically is about 
using, the as yet non-existent, Blender 2.6, admits that the result was 
a total bloody mess. lol

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