On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Luke Benstead wrote: > On 18 February 2011 13:23, Andrew Laignel <a.laig...@sportsweb.biz> wrote: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Firefox-4-Mockup-i06-%28Win7%29-%28Aero%29-%28TabsTop%29.png > > *cough* > Err... yeah, like that :)
These kinds of menus are okay for very seldomly-used ones---such as those in a browser, or an instant messaging application---but I've never been particularly keen on them for menus that actually have to be *used* (word-processor, drawing application, ...). My understanding is that humans remember grids: across, then down. When that type of vertical menu is: down, down, down, ... the instant positional memory is not there. My best regular example of this is the huge right-click menu in GIMP. After a decade of near-daily use I still don't have a mental model of what that menu looks like, other than knowing that the option I want is "somewhere" in 2-3 layers of side-ways shuffling. Admittedly I quite happily used the similiarly ballooning side-ways menus in RiscOS for several years prior to that; compare: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLXilJdXGMo/0.jpg (RiscOS !Draw) http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs120/f02/lab4/gimp_menus.gif (GIMP) -Paul _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
