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I don't have a lot of experience, but I suspect that many visual applications could be greatly improved by a well defined command language. The various dialog
by mbrock 9y ago
I don't have a lot of experience, but I suspect that many visual applications could be greatly improved by a well defined command language.
The various dialog boxes and widgets in apps like Gimp and Inkscape always seem fussy and annoying to me, especially when I know exactly what I want. If I could talk to the app, I would say "put margins 2cm from the page edge" or "position object X halfway between objects Y and Z", etc.
Blender has a Python console, and it's even somewhat discoverable because you can find out how to script an action you do in the UI, but the Python API is too verbose and ugly to be an actual daily mode of operation, I think.
- earenndil 9y agoSure, there can be a textual component. This works out well and is even necessary in, e.g., game engines. But ultimately you're modifying an image and you need to be able to see the modifications as you make them even if the way you're making them is with the keyboard.