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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: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:09PM (4 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:09PM (#686388) Journal

    Could not see the normal Windows user figuring this out. My god, they can't even figure out tabs on a browser!

    Nupe.

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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:30PM (#686518)

    Oh why did this get dredged up? OMG, the Gnome devs will see it, the MicroFart devs will see it, etc. Round is the new square and for 2020 we will have inflicted on us:
    * Gnome4 circular UI edition
    * KDE6 take it to the next level with no straight lines anywhere, just bezier curves and more bezier curves
    * Lose2020 (Windows 20) unified with the remnants of Ubuntu Dazzled Duck featuring animated circular UI
    Heeeeelpppp!!! Let me off of this planet!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:36AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:36AM (#686609)

    I'm used to Alt Tab to cycle between windows. Browser tabs ruin that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:29AM (#686640)

      How?
      Ctrl 1 etc to focus a tab and ctrl tab to rotate?
      How does this effect you?

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 31 2018, @03:28PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday May 31 2018, @03:28PM (#686776)

      I thought they were talking about an IE feature at some point that would split out each tab into a separate selection when you hovered the IE icon in the taskbar? Did that never happen?

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