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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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> 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 
>  
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