Blender has a tool shelf now, though, and the entire interface is scriptable through python, so can't someone with scripting experience do whatever they like?
what do you mean when you say 'now' pea, 2.5 is still beta and imo not fully battle ready ps, I have copy and pasting experience, not scripting experience.. so I'm not going to muck about with python interfaces
whoa floating panel I hear? I might be interested in this as well even though I don't work with maya. Do you script it with python or is there another way of adding custom panels with script- buttons?