there are many ideas for easy to use menus (touch and non touch) in gnome3 check it out: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/gnome-3-menu-mockups.html ________________________________ > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:01:49 +0000 > From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Ayatana] Easy to use menus for touch and non touch devices > > It strikes me that the idea behind hiding the menus has been that for > people with touch devices these menus are not useful and future > applications should avoid the use of menus where possible. > However, this requires developers to rewrite their programs with touch > friendly interfaces and does not, in the intervening time, offer a > solution. > > As an all round solution I suggest replacing the context menu with a > gnome pie menu which would contain the context menu items in the right > half, and the top menus as items in the left half. > For example: > Right clicking a blank space in Nautilus would bring up a pie in which > 'Create New Folder', 'Create New Document' etc through to 'Properties', > would make up the right half of the pie and 'File', 'Edit', 'View' etc > through to 'Help' would make up the left half of the pie. > > In my opinion this would provide an easy way to access menus and would > solve three problems with the current implementation: > 1) The large amount of mouse travel required to hit the top menu for > people with large screens > 2) The requirement for an application to have focus before it's menu > can be accessed > 3) Menus as they stand are not touch friendly and creating a touch > friendly interface requires work by the software developers > > However, I understand that to retrieve the context menu options may > require the program developers to explicitly make them available to > Unity (something which again requires developers time and thus breaks > the idea of saving them time creating new interfaces). As a compromise > option therefore, we could use the default context menu, with the pie > showing the top menu options in the remaining three quarters: > > [http://65.55.75.231/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=d0edbf69-061c-11e1-bb77-00237de49cd6&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&imgsrc=cid%3apart1.08070606.02040809%40hotmail.co.uk&hm__login=estelar57&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.13.216.8&d=d4067&mf=0&hm__ts=Thu%2c%2003%20Nov%202011%2015%3a24%3a30%20GMT&st=estelar57&hm__ha=01_5363fc9f83e53806fe0a325ad6fb1ccf44f3005633cae4c8ffcfde65e923d4c1&oneredir=1] > > Any thoughts? > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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