"There are very few if not 0 3d applications out there that have "sophomoric" icon controls"

Um, Maya and Max come immediately to mind…

"in adobe products you can configure the hotkeys"

So what? When you have 100+ images a day to process, you don't need anyone messing around with your workflow.

"working with layers in photoshop hasn't changed that much, over the years if anything it's gotten way better. Which I think was the point of those changes, your rant has no place here."

You obviously don't work in high volume production with Photosohop. It's all beside the point anyway. I was merely making a point of "change for change's sake" with the Adobe reference. My real point was that people criticize blender's interface like there's something wrong with it. I don't see anything wrong with the interface.

I'm all for intelligent progress in an application, and if the new changes don't impede the established workflow in blender, I'm all for it. If it changes that workflow dramatically, then as far as I'm concerned that can be problematic.

You obviously don't work in high volume production with Photosohop. It's all beside the point anyway. I was merely making a point of "change for change's sake" with the Adobe reference. My real point was that people criticize blender's interface like there's something wrong with it. I don't see anything wrong with the interface.

I'm all for intelligent progress in an application, and if the new changes don't impede the established workflow in blender, I'm all for it. If it changes that workflow dramatically, then as far as I'm concerned that can be problematic.

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Blender's interface will be highly configurable, plus configurable hot keys now, you wont have to releard *much*, it will still be blender, just better.

vidrazor: in adobe products you can configure the hotkeys–working with layers in photoshop hasn't changed that much, over the years if anything it's gotten way better. Which I think was the point of those changes, your rant has no place here.

Not that I'm in love the existing interface. Nor do I hate it. It's not a matter of love or hate, but merely one of understanding. Personally I think it's one of the most versatile interfaces in modeling. The only other interface I've ever liked was Lightwaves'. Both blender and Lightwave have intelligent, mature interfaces that aren't splattered with sophomoric-looking iconic controls. I sincerely hope this isn't where blender's new interface is going.

Changing things around can impede production efficiency as well, assuming you've been working with the application for a while. One of my biggest peeves with Adobe is that they're constantly pulling the rug out from under you and changing hotkeys for the sake of showing off some new widget in x version of whatever. This really gets in the way of day-to-day production when you're trying to get work out the door. For instance, they've significantly changed working in layers in Photoshop (my stock in trade, as I'm a photographic retoucher) to annoying levels which I won't delve into here. Suffice it to say it's professionally problematic.

So hopefully blenders' new interface won't require a relearning of protocol so one can continue to concentrate on creating than memorizing where everything has been revamped to.

@ Nathan Braswell: I doubt anyone of the Blender team members think we should target at "low to mid end designers". Blender is for individuals or small teams who are seriously devoted to create 3D content. For them we try to make it with the best quality possible.