On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Stephen J Baker wrote: > Le mar 09/04/2002 à 15:42, Sven Neumann a écrit : > > - Four direction menus to reduce mouse movements necessary to > > reach a certain menu entry. I'm not sure if I understood this > > correctly. Someone should draw some Ascii art to illustrate > > this. I don't like the idea. > > I've seen this on a number of graphics packages (Maya for example) > and it does work quite well. http://www.piemenu.com/ Research, source, examples, etc. Pie menus are used in The Sims and Maya. They work well for some applications (IMO), especially where there is frequent menu navigation, and I wouldn't mind seeing them as an option within the GIMP. But as already pointed out, the familiar list is also a good approach for those learning the features. A toggleable switch would be nice.
