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In article <6685@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I said:
>But an application should, by default, conform to a simple convention
>that doesn't involve double-clicking, shift-clicking, chording, and so
>on.

YES!! We're not arguing. We're just trying to talk the same language!

>> Any other action, like poping up a menu, really slows down the user
>> (With the exception of Don Hopkins Pie Menus, which can be selected before the
>> menu appears. You can even select an item from  a nested menu before it appears!)
>
>I've heard of these. They sound cool.

Don is a very cool dude.

For people how haven't seen them in action, Pie Menus allow you to
select an action by moving the mouse to the proper up/down/left/right
pie slice. You can select an item without waiting for the menu to appear,
because you move in a direction that is consistant.

If you move to a slice, and click again, you can go to the next menu
before the first one appears. This can be nested so that you can click
ahead several menus.

The best part is when you are able to click ahead, Don's software
shows a round gray circle with a slice removed - the one item you selected.

It sort of looks like a PacMan.

He was thinking of a way to keep count of the number of times you can
select a menu before it appears, so that at the end of the day you can
compare PacMan scores! :-)

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