Re: Fitts's Law, or do you _really_ know how to make a good UI?



> > Yes,
> > 
> > this is very cool, but I think there should be a control panel option to
> > do this also, for all apps.
> > 
> > I think this is cool, but I think this does not look good on a 1600x1200
> > resolution. I would propose that if you 2bl cliked the little bar on the
> > left, the  menu would become the NeXT type. What do you guys think about
> > this?
> 
> As you mention it - has anybody used NeXT-style menus with
> focus-follows-pointer ?  Maybe if applications request the
> shared menu only after a (e.g. 0.85 sec.) delay it could work ?  I'd
> love to use NeXT like menus but I'm using said focus policy in the 
> window manager.
> 

Well one posible solution is to not allow these type of menus when 
focus-follows-pointer is "ON". I hadnt tought on that. I don't think 
pepole using focus-follow-pointer are willing to wait 0.85 sec. 

> Another idea would be to have right-click get the context menu
> as usual and Ctrl-right-click get the complete app menu (in
> NeXT style with Quit/Exit beeing the last top level item as an option
> to display app menus.
> 
> Regards,
> kai
> 
> 
> 
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