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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I would take the "look at me I am so smart I use non comprehensible big words to show how smart I am" out of it. PI is riddled with that. I guess morhphological transformation (morphological means to do with the shape/form of something, transformation means to change into something else) sounds a lot smarter than "star rounder tool"!
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The guys who write PI are astronomers and computer scientists so they use the technical nomenclature they are used to. I don't think it's an intentional elitist thing. That "star rounder" is actually a generic shape changer and the name reflects that.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I started with the tour of the various icons on the windows which I found to be the most confusing thing about PI. Microsoft windows icons we are all familiar with but what are those extra symbols on the windows and which one should you be using etc???
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Agree that the non-native interface is a PITA to start with. It's a consequence of making PI portable to operating systems other than Windows (how many other applications do you know that run on Windows, OS X, Linux and BSD Unix?) The Photoshop GUI is similarly unlike anything else in Windows but we forget that because we're used to it.
Anyway, I think your idea for the thread is good, Greg, and I'm happy to chime in from time to time if you want. If not, I'll just lurk and bite my tongue
Cheers,
Rick.