Speaking as an experienced mapper who has used GtkRadiant years, Tread is lacking a great deal. Perhaps it will become better, but it seems like a waste to develop it when Radiant is already much better and open source.
I'm curious as to what is missing from Tread 3.0 *alpha*
I've been playing with it off and on for the last week, and while there is a minor Learning curve, from a Q1/Q2 stand point I've found it to be Much faster to work in than gtkRadiant. Please don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's finished, however a blanket statement like "Tread is lacking a great deal." really isn't helpful. while yes Radiant is free and open source, that doesn't all of a sudden close the doors for other editors especially one that has a radically different work flow.
I'm truly curious as to what features are lacking, and would love to see a list of said features.
did anyone else notice that TFA was reported on a page that to some degree is what is supposed to be "bad" for a user.
layouts that are difficult to navigate
unnecessary ads, including banners
lets see, there was the Samsung ad in the upper right hand corner. If you happen to mouse over it a lovely "screen peeling" effect happens that causes a large portion of the page to no longer be readable until you mouse all the way off the newly "peeled" section. On top of that both a horizontal and vertical ad that are identical to one another in content. And lets not forget the numberous tables with links in a font small enough that any "vision impaired" individual would need a magnification device (software or hardware) to be able to even decipher what they were.
Maybe it's just me, but making a point to display this sort of information on a website that blatantly is in violation of the whole concept seems to cheapen the data being presented.
I think the largest point to touch on here is the timely release schedules of Ubuntu. Lets face it Debian is an awesome distro, but has a tendency not to "keep up" with the others. This isn't a problem for those of us who "play linux" daily, however to be companies this very well come come across as an undesirable trait.
Following that I would have to sight the fact that as a company, getting things done with another company is much faster than say with a community effort. Lets face it community efforts are done primarily by people in their free time, they are not likely to be able to devote the time necessary to fulfill sun's requests "on demand"
The other thing that one has to wonder about this is the package repo's. with Sun backing Ubuntu for servers, the repos are much more likely to contain the packages necessary for the daily operation of a server. So the "Well it only has gui packages" argument is fairly insignificant when you look at the possible effort that is available if Sun or Ubuntu feels it's necessary.
I think the only way this "good list" would be a "bad thing" is if it was forced upon you. Having it as a reference isn't a bad thing at all. The one concern I have is being that it is run (like most things) by corporations, there is a possibility for greed (read: money) to cause polution of the list.
I also believe that in a world of default deny the usefulness of such a list would be limited. The few users/admins that actively changed their software configurations would be the only people to look at it with any regularity and that could lead to an outdated or dead list.
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Speaking as an experienced mapper who has used GtkRadiant years, Tread is lacking a great deal. Perhaps it will become better, but it seems like a waste to develop it when Radiant is already much better and open source.
I'm curious as to what is missing from Tread 3.0 *alpha* I've been playing with it off and on for the last week, and while there is a minor Learning curve, from a Q1/Q2 stand point I've found it to be Much faster to work in than gtkRadiant. Please don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's finished, however a blanket statement like "Tread is lacking a great deal." really isn't helpful. while yes Radiant is free and open source, that doesn't all of a sudden close the doors for other editors especially one that has a radically different work flow. I'm truly curious as to what features are lacking, and would love to see a list of said features.
lets see, there was the Samsung ad in the upper right hand corner. If you happen to mouse over it a lovely "screen peeling" effect happens that causes a large portion of the page to no longer be readable until you mouse all the way off the newly "peeled" section. On top of that both a horizontal and vertical ad that are identical to one another in content. And lets not forget the numberous tables with links in a font small enough that any "vision impaired" individual would need a magnification device (software or hardware) to be able to even decipher what they were.
Maybe it's just me, but making a point to display this sort of information on a website that blatantly is in violation of the whole concept seems to cheapen the data being presented.
I think the largest point to touch on here is the timely release schedules of Ubuntu. Lets face it Debian is an awesome distro, but has a tendency not to "keep up" with the others. This isn't a problem for those of us who "play linux" daily, however to be companies this very well come come across as an undesirable trait.
Following that I would have to sight the fact that as a company, getting things done with another company is much faster than say with a community effort. Lets face it community efforts are done primarily by people in their free time, they are not likely to be able to devote the time necessary to fulfill sun's requests "on demand"
The other thing that one has to wonder about this is the package repo's. with Sun backing Ubuntu for servers, the repos are much more likely to contain the packages necessary for the daily operation of a server. So the "Well it only has gui packages" argument is fairly insignificant when you look at the possible effort that is available if Sun or Ubuntu feels it's necessary.
I think the only way this "good list" would be a "bad thing" is if it was forced upon you. Having it as a reference isn't a bad thing at all. The one concern I have is being that it is run (like most things) by corporations, there is a possibility for greed (read: money) to cause polution of the list. I also believe that in a world of default deny the usefulness of such a list would be limited. The few users/admins that actively changed their software configurations would be the only people to look at it with any regularity and that could lead to an outdated or dead list.