[Therion] easyer to handle?

[Philip Schuchardt]

Stefan,

I completely agree.  I really like Therion and I've drawn large  
systems with it.  In contrast of a user centric system, Therion is  
system centric, where the user must conform to the system.  It is  
definitely takes more time and effort to develop a user centric system.

I'm currently trying to develop a more user friendly cave drawing  
software, called Cavewhere (www.cavewhere.org).   It's currently under  
heavy development and has a long long way to go.  You can't even draw  
or enter a centerline.  There are some major underlying design issues  
that I'm fixing right now.  For now, Therion is definitely the best  
thing out there.

Steelwool

On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Martin Sluka wrote:

>
> On 8.2.2008, at 12:50, Stefan Oswald wrote:
>
>> We draw on therion in our caving club, but we have a few problems,
>> which i want to report to you, we also have made a little
>> "brainstorming"...
>>
>> It is always very difficult to introduce new people, no software
>> engineers, into therion, also i had great problems. The map editor
>> user interface gives many options, but thereby it is not really
>> easy to handle, the same with the layout. It is difficult to
>> produce a good looking plan-layout with text and so on.
>> A generall icon-interface, such as most leading CAD programmes use
>> would be much more efficient in our opinion. Is this planed in
>> final version?
>>
>> In Therion you draw something and you do not know what it will  
>> exactly
>> look like. For handling the Programm it would be easyer if you could
>> immediately see the result without pressing F9, opening the .pdf,
>> take a look at the result, close it again (Windows) and return to
>> therion.
>> just an idea.
>> Also showing other scraps (.th2 files) in map editor, as with CAD
>> for Cavers (Autocad) would be an option.
>>
>> To abstract we mean placing focus on usability would make it easyer
>> for many people using therion, not only in our club.
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> you are absolutely right, your arguments or wishes are evergreen from
> the very beginning of therion.
>
> BUT, therion is a piece of software "as is". It was made by two men
> (with help of several others). Both authors are very busy now and
> there is no any space to rewrite for example xtherion map editor from
> scratch.
>
> Another BUT - the format of data is open, the source code is
> available. So there is theoretically no any problem to make new map
> editor for therion. Wysiwyg, with menus, icons, etc., etc. AND
> compatible with Linux, MacOSX and Windows. AND free.
>
> Good luck
>
> Martin
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