Re: Edges of the screen (Panel suggestion)

[nelson-gnome crynwr com]

Matthias Warkus writes:
 > In the talkback to my editorial on LinuxToday, someone told me of
 > www.asktog.com, a site about user interface design. There, I found
 > this:
 > 
 > ] Fitts's Law
 > ] 
 > ] The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size
 > ] of the target. 

Which is why pie menus rock.  Right-click, and the menu is under your
mouse.  Move out beyond the dead zone, and your target extends to the
edges of your screen.  There's even gtk+ code to implement this:
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~0rfelyus/GtkPieMenu/index.html

I'm going to hack this code into gphoto so y'll can see how it works.

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