Hi,
I saw that article too -- I mostly agree with it.
Now, about pie menus. I found on the internet
a WM that is called piewm.tar.Z. It gives me an
error that something is declared not right.
Anyway, try it on your computer, it MIGHT
work, I don't know (but because an error
is in code itself -- I doubt)
Hava fun.
Nikita
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:56:02 -0400 (EDT) William Denton <buff_at_vex.net>
writes:
>In the current (July 1997) issue of Scientific American, there's a
>section on computers and why they aren't so hot. (The article can be
>found on the web at
>
> http://www.sciam.com/0797issue/0797trends.html,
>
>the bit I'm going to refer to can be found at
>
> http://www.sciam.com/0797issue/0797trendsbox2.html
>
>although it doesn't have any of the illustrations.)
>
>Usability research has shown, apparently, that pie-shaped menus work
>better than the ones we all have now. There's a picture in the
>magazine of a circular menu, with a central button, buttons radiating
>out to the left, and various buttons and glyphs on the right. "They
>are 30 per cent faster and have half the error rates of menu bars,"
>someone called Schneiderman says. "We remember angles so much better
>than distances," Ted Selker says (there's a link to his home page on
>the SA web site).
>
>It makes sense to me. Right now, with pull-down menus, you have to be
>careful about how far you go down, and everyone I know is always
>watching the menus to make sure they go down just the right amount.
>Last weekend I was fooling around with fvwm and quit out of it twice,
>when all I'd wanted to do was restart it - the two options are very
>close in my menu. If I could go "click - whoosh it left and up -
>click" or "click - straight down for Emacs - click," I think I'd get
>used to the angles very quickly.
>
>I'm wondering, how hard would it be to do a module that would let
>people create pie menus? I assume it *can* be done, but I don't know
>anything about X programming, so I have no idea how tough it is.
>Beyond that, of course, someone would have to do it, but I'm hoping
>the idea might intrigue someone. :)
>
>
>Bill
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