Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 March 2010 19:02, Eduard Grebe wrote:

This is certainly an interesting set of ideas worth thinking about. I'm
not sure mouse-based gestures would work well, however: I suspect they
would be very cumbersome compared to direct button clicks.

A radial pie-menu is a good alternative to gestures. It provides most benefits of gestures, and has a much gentler learning curve.

I don't think gestures nor pie-menus would work in an item placed so close to the screen edge, though. But it would work if invoked from the window title bar instead, either through double-click or right click.

This solution has an advantage over direct buttons: the target area is much bigger, so it would require less targeting time even if the required mouse gesture is a bit more complex. 

The Esfera might be used to make this menu discoverable, though I would put it closer to the center of the title bar - maybe next to the centered window title.