Re: [udeproject-user] Extend pie menu targets

[Christian R. <ar...@gm...>]

joseph,

please excuse the late reply but i was putting a small priority on
"repairing" my ude cvs access (by converting it to svn which seems to work
about fine now). thanks for your suggestions, please see below for
comments.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:39:42PM -0400, Joseph Huang wrote:
> Hello Christian,
>=20
> The behavior feels natural in my experience. Since pie menus selection
> depends on direction instead of distance, invisibly extending menu targets
> feels correct. I tried it in a pie menu implementation for PyQt and I
> modified the RadialContext extension for Firefox to have such behavior.
>=20
> http://neoui.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

invisible controls (especially those who are activated by _releasing_ the
mouse button) are still dangerous in my opinion. "panic-actions" in the
style of "whoooaaaa!!! what have i done? well i'll just move the mouse
button away from the icons and release it and nothing will happen" would
have unexpected effects, loosing data in the worst case. another
disadvantage is that the customizable shapes were planned as the first
step to a custumizable number of icons (which is more difficult to achieve
in case you have invisibly extending icons, you would have to autogenerate
them and probably end up with something quite silly compared to your
suggestion with the text labels, see below). now that i have full access
to the sources again, i'll do a backport of the configurable shapes as
soon as i got some air to do it.

> Alternative to your proposal: replace the icons with text labels.

that's an excellent idea. it should be quite trivial to implement upon
the configurable shapes feature: we could even try to have some
autogenerate shapes feature which would generate a _visible_ circular
menu with text labels with a configurable radius. you would then simply
have to set the radius bigger than the screen diagonal and  you'll have
"infinite icons". I'll try to think up a clever (and nicely-looking) way
to implement that once i have finished the arbitrary shapes.

> Disadvantage:
> Might be harder for people who read other languages.

this shouldn't be a problem: we can either make the texts configurable or
simply include them into the gettext internationalization so they'ld be
easy to translate into other languages in case someone's interested.

greetings and tell me what you think,
  christian

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  Christian Ruppert                                             <ar...@gm...>
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