code.google.com — This is a circular-application-menu (C-A-M) prototype mirroring the same structure as the existing application menu for the GNOME desktop. This was originally just a paper prototype which I did back in March 2007, and decided to code over Christmas 2007-2008.
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Closed AccountSep 2, 2008
Nice giant fisher price menus to eat up tons of screen space!they do look kind of cool though.
watchtSep 2, 2008
Must be the same reason for why your sentence structure sucks.
Closed AccountSep 2, 2008
You'd add "ubuntu" if you wanted more diggs.
stringycustardSep 2, 2008
Yeah, makes me sad that a circular system just is too difficult to get working in terms of GUIs. I've been trying to prototype a circular interface and it proved such a tricky system to work with it slowed the rest of project down (busy trying to look at rethinking OS GUIs).
estoyeSep 2, 2008
Now I want to play Frenzic.
Closed AccountSep 4, 2008Submitter
No, not trying to get more Diggs. I utilize the "shareaholic" extension for FF. With this extension, one can easily submit stories or websites to Digg. When it does so, it places the website's title for the submission's title, go ahead, take a look. Notice how they're the same?? I simply added Awesome to the beginning.
phreakheadSep 8, 2008
I would say it's not a problem of desktop real-estate, but the giant menus defeat one of the main purposes of pie menus: that it only takes tiny mouse movements in a direction to get the menu item you want. With circles this big, you have to make giant gestures with your hand to get where you're going.Granted, I don't have Gnome so I haven't tried them out, but I think the creator would benefit from looking at the RadialContext extension for Firefox. The icons could be much smaller, shortening the radius you have to move to choose a second-level item. Also notice that with RadialContext there is always only one circle, centered around the cursor, which changes depending on the menu so the movement required is minimal (simply a direction, not a distance). The key of pie-menus is the short gestures you make, not the flashy graphics or pretty icons. However, I'm glad to see these coming into the mainstream! I've been waiting for pie menus for a long time!
gettaratNov 24, 2008
Compiled just fine, but segfaults with any mouse click on Ubuntu 8.04.<a class="user" href="http://applebeesmenu.org/">http://applebeesmenu.org/</a>