If you're working on a small game project without an existing framework/platform, you usually build a really bargain-basement game editor alongside it. That editor takes a long time, and it's often spent in arranging UI stuff.

If you're already using Blender to make assets, there's some benefit to stuffing Blender's UI into your game editor too.

Why not? For similar applications it would be really beneficial to not have to reimplement all the little UI interactions they've polished over the years

No? I think there would easily be other use cases where Blenders UI would be very suitable, e.g. Audio software.

It is not a UI paradigm that you would use for just anything, but for certain poweruser software it is one of the best paradigms I have seen, especially since they managed to get rid of 90% of the rough corners in the past decade of development.

Imagine this spinning off and becoming this generation's GTK.

How about a simpler UI consisting of just a text input field for AI.

A side by side screenshot of inkscape/gimp/blender for those who don't have them installed

https://cleanshot.com/share/WW9yFdMy

I just want to be able to crop and draw on top of images. Like old Paint. That is literally all I want to ever do with images. What should I use in Linux for this purpose

De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.

Inkscape’s UI is much, much better than Blender’s, IMO.

and then rename it blimp

Fantastic is the last word I would use the describe blenders UI/UX.

I was just a kid in 2002, so couldn’t contribute, but I remember checking the MoneyMeter going up every day, so that the community could buy out Blender and make it free software. GPL does restrict it, but it’s also only the only reason Blender is not a long forgotten piece of software from the 90s.

Well.. Old discussion but I actually think it's the better way (sorry. MIT, you are more free then anything). Either contribute back or stay away from open source work that others did for you.

Well, given that so many folks always argue they are Linux distros even though it is an implementation detail for userspace APIs, ChromeOS, WebOS and Android.

What makes you say that? It was the part that goes...

> The repository is built entirely using LLMs, with no human-written code. The drawing and interaction code is ported from Blender's sources, and the behavior is checked by tests: C, Python, Rust and JavaScript suites, the tkinter side-by-side programs and the GPU parity test.

...wasn't it?

and thats fine. without LLMs no human would have invested so much required time and effort to do this! and now such awesome things are possible with a bit of tokens and a small prompt. overall a win

Super curious about the limitations you see in GPUI! I built a custom rust UI framework for the software i am developing but i always kept an eye on GPUI, what is limiting about it in your opinion?

I never found them terrible, but I guess I spent a long time staring at them so maybe I just got used to them.

Do Maya and others have better UIs? Honestly, I find them more repulsive than Blender's

More like a “why not both” situation, imho. I have apps I could port to use this immediately.

Most native widget toolkits don't actually support rendering into 3d canvasses very well, nor very compact UI layouts. I generally prefer native widgets, but for a dense prosumer application, they aren't always the correct choice (and you'll see even Apple stray from their native UI widgets for, say, Logic Pro)

I target all platforms, and so does most other desktop software today.

Ok for linux it's GTK and Qt. What's native for windows in 2026? It's a complete joke of system UI.

I am pretty sure HN is an enclave of the only remaining people in the world who think this way. A sanctuary preserving the last specimens of an endangered species.