Idea about extended menus

[Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov]

Hi,

I'm not Joe, but I don't like this idea. :) I mean there is nothing really
bad with this, but it will affect the usability. Just look: right now,
you can reach _any_ item, available on the XFCE panel with (maximum) two
clicks. So it's either "click" or "click, move mouse, and click". But with
the sub-menus that would be "click, move mouse, click, move mouse, click"
(and so on for sub-sub...-sun-menus).

Or another example, do you remember, that you can drag&drop files on the
panel? Dragging and dropping files to the sub-menus (and even
sub-sub-menus)  will be to cumbersome. That would be "click, move mouse,
click, then drag&drop" instead of "drag&drop" or "click and drag&drop".

Besides, how many applications do you use, so you can't put all icons into
the "regular" panel? The typical panel gives you 8 icons/popups. You can
have 3..5 items in each popup menu. Overall that would be 24..40 app
icons. I guess it's enough for everybody. The panel isn't a place, where
you supposed to have icons for all available application, it's the place
where you keep the icons for you favorite (frequently used) applications.

What do you think?

Thanks.

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Peeter Vois wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:04:39 +0200
> From: Peeter Vois <Peeter.Vois at mail.ee>
> Reply-To: xfce-dev at moongroup.com
> To: XFCE_DEV <xfce-dev at moongroup.com>
> Subject: Idea about extended menus
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been thinking several times how to extend XFCE menus without losing
> the look and feel and what might not raise the code size too much. So
> finally I have found something:
>
> To this mail is added 2 pictures.
>
> idea_0.png
> ----------
> This is regular menu like todays XFCE has but the line on the left side of
> TEG shows that this menu has submenu. By clicking (somehow) on the TEG, then
> the menu will look like following
>
> idea_1.png
> ----------
> This menu actually looks like regular XFCE menu too but there are two TEG-s
> submenu items shown. The submenu is also somehow marked so that it will
> be understood that they are not top level items. This case the bounding line
> and arrow at the left side has the function.
>
> It is also possible to extend the hierarhy of submenus in general way (no big
> additional coding needed) to have sub-sub-...-sub menus.
>
> Hehh, Joe, tell me something that cools me down :)
>
>       Peeter Vois
> http://my.tele2.ee/vois
>

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