Hi Gary I think this is very interesting. The visual design isn't quite there yet, but I think that the interaction is a good one to consider. There is something quite intuitive about maintaining the selected item at the center.
I think we could try a few alternate visual explorations, such as what would happen if the second ring wasn't as articulated. For instance, what about having a gray background overlay covering the entire view, and removing the gray hairlines around the elements in the pie menu, but otherwise leaving the information where it is? I also wonder about showing both text and icon, and whether we should treat this more as an additional layer on the home UI, with hover states for each icon in the menu as you would expect from the main view. If it's OK, I will try a few variations since I think this does have potential! Christian On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Gary C Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Here's a mockup for Walter's previous pie menu suggestion (starting a new > thread as Sascha though the last one was getting too long). Pie menus have > some nice UI properties, but can also be difficult to get working right for > all cases (I've tried not to cheat in the mockup). I'd consider this a more > touch friendly layout than current palettes/hover-menus (something the > fullscreen dialogue approach was also trying to take into account). The inner > two choices appear instantly on click. The outer segments appear on delay > hover, with a 90% alpha to help keep the user in context (though given our > ongoing lack of compositing, solid fill might have to do). Rolling over a > segment lights up its fill, the whole of each segment needs to accept hits. > > --Gary > > > > > > -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
