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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.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 31 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)
I'm going to go with a strong Yes. When the market spends the last few decades making computing more accessible to the everyman, terminals are understandably pushed into the background. Call it a generalized Eternal September, if you will.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 01 2018, @05:06PM
Oh, but pie menu text aligned with the wedges? Not so great. Modern rendering engines can often do a wonderful job of rendering text at an incline - however, it's generally easier to *read* the text when it's horizontal. Which is one of the reasons you usually hold books, newspapers, etc. horizontal while reading, despite the fact that the rendering is identical in any orientation.