Re: Panel UI - startmenu productivity thoughts

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Chris Altmann wrote:

> OS/2's WPS has a style of menu called Conditional Cascading Menus (CCM) that
> might be suitable for this feature. It has the visual appearance of a
> traditional cascading menu (Menu text with arrow on right hand side) but
> with a box around the arrow to make it appear as if it were a button. If the
> user selects the text portion of the menu item, the default action is
> performed. If the user selects the arrow/button, a submenu appears. See the
> following link for a picture (3rd image down).
>
> http://home.hiwaay.net/~jeffj1/computers/os2/WPS/Tips/Menus.html
>
> I could see this menu style being useful in a lot of situations; mainly to
> reduce context menu clutter.

I don't like that, at least with an arrow for the image.  Use another 
image and I might like it.   Perhaps if the user clicks on the icon in 
the menu it could perform a default action.  That default action could 
be configured, or as an option, be the most often selected item from the 
submenu.

-b

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