Hi Guille & Cyril, On 1 June 2018 at 14:22, Cyril Ferlicot D. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > With Guille we are trying to improve the usability of the WorldMenu. > > The world menu is by large un-intuitive: > - Users are not used to click on a background to open a menu > - For those that "get it" they try to do it with right click (Of > course, it looks like a context menu!) and that does not work > > Since some decades now the default way to display a menu in applications > is to have a bar at the top of the windows. We should change that world > menu by a menu bar like any application. That will lower the entrance > barrier to new users, at the cost of having to move the cursor to the > top to look for the menu... > > You can find here a PR that add the WorldMenu as a top bar to Pharo and > reorganize it: > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1470 > > See screen in the PR. > > It still have room for improvements but we think it's stable enough for > integration in Pharo. > > Missing features: > - What do we do when Pharo is not wide enough? > - What to do when a window is dragged behind? > - Make it parametrizable to allow users to build a bar with their own > menu builder > - Add shortcuts to open the menu windows like (maybe) > - Update it when we change the font size (this is a general Pharo problem) > > Feedback is welcome.
Thanks for this. Along with being able to maximise windows completely, making the task-bar distinct at the bottom, these are great changes. Instead of a menu bar at the top, which takes quite a bit of space, and as mentioned may not fit on a small screen (especially if applications add entries), how about a "Start" button in the task-bar that pops up the menu a-la Windows? I'm not tied to the name "Start", it could just be an earth icon, which would save space. (This is actually how I interpreted Cyril's original suggestion) Cheers, Alistair > Related issue: > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22038/Replace-World-Menu-by-Menu-bar > > Guille & Cyril > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr >
