Should Blender 2.8 have extra UI options?
Should Blender 2.8 have a feature to change to past UIs. As in being able to change the UI back to Blender 2.79 or past versions.
I feel as if the devs should have the option to change to past UIs because if people are coming from Blender 2.79 to 2.8 there is a dramatic UI change which means having to learn a new UI.
Another suggestion I have is for the devs to have a help notification to help people if they're having trouble with an animation. Of course people should be able to turn this off in settings.
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There are several issues with such things:
And all that to avoid people to learn a "new" UI, which in the long run is a bad idea for them, and also considering that the "new" 2.8 is an evolution of the old one. It's mostly the same, the biggest changes are not a big deal.
About the "help" notification. Devs are supposed to develop features and fix bugs, not to be available 24h/7d doing user support.
If you need to, there are plenty sites where you can have help, may it be on blenderartists.org for user share & cumminity help, developer.blender.org for posting bug reports, devtalk.blender.org to discuss about blender development, getting help for development by other users and sometimes blender devs too, and rightclickselect to post & discuss feature requests.
Having to switch to 2.8 takes tops 1 to 2 days. It's weird people want to have an option to go back.