Re: RGSG

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Jantzen <chris@maybe.net>
To: Dan Kaminsky <effugas@best.com>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: RGSG


>Dan Kaminsky writes:
> > Damn, I have got to do a mockup of pie menus, I THINK I can see how
they've
> > been done wrong, and how they should have been done.
>
>There was a very nice article in Dr. Dobb's a few years ago about Pie
>Menus. Discussed many of the advantages (which I may take time to
>summarize for you sometime). One of the failings of Pie Menus I've
>seen in implementation is the use of text. Pie Menus work best when
>there are a simple set of options equally spaced around the menu. They
>work even better when the number of options in the menu is consistent
>for *all* menus in the entire OS. Equadistant spacing is generally
>only achievable with icons, which can be confusing for new
>users... (But then I don't think we're targetting Pie Menus as C1 <g>)


Any idea as to when or where I can read this article?  I'm very interested
in creating a workable pie menu mockup.