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[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please look at this screenshot: http://ubuntuone.com/**
> 501RQqrOW1fh89fsIWhx4z <http://ubuntuone.com/501RQqrOW1fh89fsIWhx4z>
>
> When accessing deep command structures (previously known as menus :)),
> most of the information in HUD is repeated many times. This creates
> unnecessary clutter.
>
> It would be better to display the submenu as a header and then only lists
> the menu items under that header. I'm not a great Gimp artist, so I'll use
> text to illustrate how I think it should be, compared to what you see in
> the screenshot. [more encodings] represents the search field with input.
>
> Current:
>
> [more encodings]
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > User Defined
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > Unicode (UTF-16)
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > Middle Eastern
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > SE & SW Asian
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > East Asian
>
>
> My proposal:
>
> [more encodings]
> View > Character Encodings > More Encodings (Non-clickable)
>        User Defined
>        Unicode (UTF-16)
>        Middle Eastern
>        SE & SW Asian
>        East Asian
>
>
> Of course, this was just a quick example I found in the application I was
> currently using. (Thunderbird) I can imagine scenarios where you have much
> deeper hierarchies. In those cases, the actual command might have to be
> shortened because the path is too long. But the command is more important
> than the path leading to it. I think that needs consideration as a pure
> usability issue.
>
> In any case, I think this would be cleaner than repeating the entire path
> over and over.
>
> Thoughts?
>

I like it. We'd have to be really careful with the styling to indicate that
the sub-header is non-clickable (unless someone has an idea for a useful
and coherent interaction there? I don't). But generally, +1.

Evan