Hallo, martin pi hat gesagt: // martin pi wrote:
some points to this - or "why is pd really not friendly to the user"
- it has modes (as opposed to modeless
environments (this is why people do not like vi, too). modes are hard to understand - especially for mac people since the mac interface is traditionally modeless
(j)Max has modes as well. Word 5 for Dos had modes. Reactor kind of has modes, as well. I don't think, modes are bad, but I'm a Vim user. Of course, 'normal' users, i.e. those used to the whole Windows/Mac desktop paradigm will hate modes.
- it does not support the usual features like
drag and drop, cut & paste (in message boxes for example) thus it is inconsistent (and that is the main point why people from the commercial side have problems with free software)
Yes, this isn't good. It is in part due to the cross-platform nature of Pd, but I'm sure this can be fixed. It's just, that there are other things that will be fixed earlier. I mean, up to 0.36 we didn't have Undo!
- it does not have a clear rythm of behaviour -
sometimes it is fast as light, sometimes just stuck. most times inbetween. worst when audio processing is on (and realtime on my comp).
This is one of the thing that should be fixed before drag'n'drop, but might be much harder, because it seems to be deep in the current architecture. But the close dependency between DSP and GUI must go, as Thomas wrote.
yet it is mostly verb-noun based thus good in the general flow
Patch-writing is very much like creating a world, and may I remember you: a Creator's job isn't an easy one, and even HE made a lot of mistakes so it seems... (No religious harm intended. ;)
ciao
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