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On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:

> Some UI have inspectors but for always-used things like rotate plenty of
> modern UI just make you memorize it, blender and all other 3D model editors
> (which put about as heavy a load on UI as any programs) have piles of things
> like this.
> 

There are a lot of UI out there that are difficult to use unless you want to be a specialist in the specific program.

> The key is to give users some programmed way to find out about it/learn it
> in the first place, which is where gEDA suffers from its good but somewhat
> scattered and disjointed documentation.

I learned gEDA a decade ago. It was easier then because there was less documentation. The first time I met him, Ales was rather surprised when I praised him for his concise documentation (he thought it inadequate), but often "less is more".

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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