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Originally Posted by multiweb
+1 This is exactly how I feel about it too. In the industry they'd say it's been designed by a programmer.  |
Worse than that... it was designed by programmers who are also astronomers
The UI is weird largely because they made the design choice to support multiple platforms and hence chose an OS independent GUI toolkit. I think that was a smart choice. It scares off a subset of users but it also widens the potential user base substantially.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and for some people PI is elegant and not at all difficult to understand. The process names make perfect and logical sense (and typically link to published algorithms in the astronomical literature.) I took to it like a duck to water. However, I realize that not everybody is like me or has a comp sci/maths/imaging background (probably just as well.) I can also understand why some people dislike the unusual GUI, the plethora of parameters, the lack of an obvious workflow, etc. and that's OK with me.
Cheers,
Rick.