Simmesimme/Gnome-Pie — Issue #40: Better Look & Feel Solutions
Author: sudoquai
Created: 2011-12-11 12:40:42+00:00
State: open

- Left Mouse Button with delay is best in my opinion for selecting (check if user is dragging a window or something else that could activate gnome-pie or just left clicking on desktop)
- Init: all menu entries are 50% transparent, unused menu entries are staying 50% transparent, often used entries are getting 0% transparent
- Rotating Pie with scrolling middle mouse button (cursor keys) for a better solution to select entries
- Dynamic pie menus: Drag & Drop to a virtual clipboard (maybe an other pie menu) to reorganize menu entries with dragging back to his new place, Drag & Drop to a virtual trashcan to delete menu entries.
- Better cancel and select behaviour for pies:
left clicking on a other place than a menu entry should cancel pie menu (like pressing ESC). The behaviour at the moment is: Left clicking defines the center of the new pie menu if it is a node/submenu and selects the actually activated entry. In my opinion the user defines with the first click that open pie menu, where the center should be defined and is responsible if any entries are outside the screen maybe. This could be solved as well, if it is possible to rotate the pie menu with middle mouse wheel as mentioned above.
Clicking directly on a pie entry (pressing space) is the best solution in my opinion.
- Intelligent opening of submenus:
Resting 2-3 seconds over a submenu entry opens the submenu pie, while the top menu is staying open and opens the new submenu next to the submenu entry (touching it).
- The center of the submenu could be used to show a zoomed picture in the black circle of the actual selected entry (with text overlaying the zoomed picture). Its a little bit user friendlier.
- Already opened applications could be indicated in the menu entry as well (like glowing for example if firefox is already opened in the background. If it is minimized it will be maximized as well as the right desktop selected - gnome-do has this very nice feature)
- Middle mouse button or something else for opening a search box (like gnomedo) to perform a quick textual search for the right menu entry.

Thats just some suggestions to improve pie menu :) A very good product is worth making it better.

Thx