A link to the Milenix Blog

Posted by quant
Jun 21, 2007 at 10:31 AM

Thomas wrote:
>quant wrote:
>>(probably taken from an already more powerful software),
> >Everbody
>copies something from someone else. This kind of GUI isn’t innovative feature of UR, I
>have seen it elsewhere too (eg. Delphi programming language GUI).

however, there is a huge difference to where the feature is applied. While it’s common in programming GUIs, it’s not used in PIM cause not many softwares offer meta-data. An example, while partial differential equations were long known before 1973, when Black-Scholes used it to option pricing, they got a Nobel Prize for it!
And after that, saying that no other program has it, hmm, at least author could write sth like “to my best knowledge ... “, but even then it would be lie (cause I’m sure developers know their competitors)!

>If MI4 moved feature-wise more
>towards UR, I wouldn’t mind at all. I hope that kind of competition would help UR
>programmers move in the “right” direction and more speadily. (They are great as it is,
>but MI4 is leagues above UR when it comes to being friendly and simple to use for new
>users.)

yes, but isn’t it friendlier because what you said in the first sentence, ie. because it has much much less features than UR? Moreover, everything in UR is fully customizable, the problem is that new users are overwhelmed by so many features UR provides and they never experienced in another software, that they think it’s not user friendly ... it was suggested by some users on UR forum to create a simpler “Beginner” interface, where advanced features would be disabled, and once people familiarize with UR, they could just which to “Advanced” mode somewhere in the option setting ....