originally the idea was to make a menubar more comfortable... but I don't understand your idea fully.
current menubars, although one of the most used widgets, are too uncomfortable... 2007/11/5, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I may not understand your description. > It gave me an idea, though: > mouse-gesture-ish submenus.. > That is, supposing that you have a top-level menu with items > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > and 3 is a submenu, > then, to select 3, you move down -- then a menu folds out horizontally > > 1 > 2 > 345 > > you move across, and select 5, which is also a submenu: > > 8 > 7 > 6 > 345 > > And move up to the item you wanted, 8. > > During the time a menu is active, the mouse could be constrained to > only move along that axis. Then, the above menu selection could be > made by the mouse gesture Down-Right-Up-Click (with appropriate > distances). With the cursor keys, it could be made by pressing > Up-Left-Down-Down-Enter after bringing the menu up . > In this way you can make menu navigation like maze navigation, or like > performing special moves in a fighting game, rather than the fairly > uncomfortable and unmemorable 'tree' movement used in most > applications today. > > On 11/5/07, Esteban Barahona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is the 2ยบ draft for the 1 Dimensional Menu: > > http://www.zensui.org/IxD/1DM.html > > > > I will be honored if the new GIMP UI is the first implementation of a > 1DM. > > This, I think are the changes to make it possible: > > > > 0) separate the toolbar from the menubar(s) > > 1) make the toolbar customizable to show only the relevant tools > > (configurable by each user) to simplify > > 2) change it to a vertical layout with only one icon per line > > 3) move it to the left border of the screen by default > > 4) increase the right padding so that the mouse can be moved vertically > more > > easily and quickly > > 5) add the name of each tool in this extra space > > I do understand the points you are making here, though. > In addition to 4) I want to suggest that this extra padding only be > visible during selection, so usable space is maximized > > > > > I don't know which parts of this need a new GTK widget, but also think > that > > the concept can be tested with current widgets. > > > > If the menubar is separated from the toolbar, the toolbar's window can > be > > manually positioned as a 1xN column in the border. > > The only part that has to be coded (I think) is changing the padding of > each > > icon. > > > > On another note, is a new mailing list dedicated exclusively to > interface > > design needed? IMO, this can make possible a "filter" between design and > > engineering posts making this much welcomed redesign progress more > smoothly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > > > >
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