LDCad 2.0 GUI Thoughts

[Roland Melkert]

I'm sorry if this is something different than what you wanted to hear But I really believe the value of LDCAD is in what it 'knows to do'. And if its GUI will be more 'OS standard', we get several advantages at the same time: your time saved for working on LDCAD functionality, people not surprised by the app look&feel, GUI features you can't have time to implement them all (KDE, GTK etc. are developed for years, in big teams of people).

This is probably true, but a very big part of the LDCad hobby, for me, is doing weird things. Writing 'normal' programs is my day job

This is why I even write my own string handling routines etc (hence the number/enum parsing tests in the above screen shot).

All in all I tend to view LDCad more as a game program then a office one.

The main reason for 2.0 instead of 1.7 are the internals whom were becoming messy in 1.6 because of all the unforeseen features like you suspected.