JQP opened this issue on Nov 29, 2006 · 54 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 02 December 2006 at 12:57 AM
Quote - so that everyone would be happy.
:huh::laugh:
Not in this lifetime. 
I'm not making fun of what you've said here -- because you make an excellent point in your post.
One can argue -- as has been done above -- that certain aspects of the Poser UI aren't to your....uh.....taste. But as others have hinted at in this thread -- it's neither a simple nor an easy matter to radically alter a well-known program's UI in one fell swoop. If the changes are spread out over several versions, then the customer base would likely be OK about it. But a sudden, total alteration of the UI flipped over in one version would be quite likely to antagonize far more users than it would ever please. Even if the shiny-new interface were to be perfect (however one's...uh....taste.....chooses to define the word "perfect" in this context) -- many -- perhaps most -- of the fans would be furious over suddenly having their well-worn & comfortable shoes snatched away from them. Even if those old, comfortable shoes have holes in the soles & worn-out heels.
New Coke, anyone?
Nope -- big changes to the UI are best done in stages. I think that the good folks at ef know this fact better than we do.