> - 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
I thought that this was due to be swapped for Pharo 7? Was that idea scraped? Peter On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Alistair Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
