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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the as-easy-as-3.14159... dept.

Over at Medium which is like having a blog but with an involuntary paywall, Don Hopkins takes on the topic of a 30-year retrospective of pie menus[*]. He discusses the history of what's happened with pie menus over the last 30 plus years and presents both good and bad examples, including ideas half baked, experiments, problems discovered, solutions attempted, alternatives explored, progress made, software freed, products shipped, as well as setbacks and impediments to their widespread adoption.

[*] Succinctly explained at Wikipedia:

In computer interface design, a pie menu (also known as a radial menu) is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction. It is a graphical control element. A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse. Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an easy way to exit the menu.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:08PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:08PM (#686387)

    Do not know whether to be more dissapointed this is about a gui or is light on the big issues around GM cherries, or the effect of cold storage on apple fluffing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:10PM (#686389)

    big issues around GM cherries

    Another early example of this, although five years later in 1885, was Richard Jefferies' "After London". It basically created the conceit that many works of science fiction used later -- the book is set in what appears to be a medieval society only for the reader to learn later that this isn't the past but the future after industrial civilization destroyed itself by pollution.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:14PM (#686826)

      wtf

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by HiThere on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:21PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:21PM (#686395) Journal

    My first thought was to notice the change from Rhubarb pies being present to only Strawberry-Rhubarb pies. A drasticly inferior pie.

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