This is a cut and paste conversation with Michael Hall, I "painted" a mockup with this idea, and he told me as you can read at the end of this mail to send it to you.
Short version: make a dock for program menus at the other side of Unity dock and put nested 3x3 squares with a center "go back" icon in order to be finger used" and of course as an option for tablets or "touch" monitors. - Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> - Allow nested menus debian style with boxes of 3x3 with menu at the middle for fast and easy finger use. Change actual main programs "mouse menus" with nested icons menu "fingers size" with a text, and put it in a vertical row at the right and squares of 3x3 inside - left for "global menu" and right for "program menu" - at least as a "finger use" option Make the defaults for main used programs and make an easy way for other software to make a "unity finger menu" As you can see I am not an artist, imagine gedit at unity dock, open it, and you have gedit menu icons at yout right - with images or draws - and if you finger press "file" icon then this 3x3 options, and the *white center* to fast close the submenu. The same at the right dock with a debian tree nested menu, but with categories and apps. And when you click if it goes to other menu the *white center* icon goes back instead of close the menu - Michael Hall <https://plus.google.com/u/0/109919666334513536939> - +Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/102427185464881229528> can you create a mockup of what you mean? Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> - About Ubuntu for Android, excellent idea - I had and share it at ubuntu brainstorm - IS UBUNTU BRAINSTORM WORKING?http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27101/ Idea #27101: WUBI for ANDROIDs Written by mitcoes the 2 Feb 11 at 13:22. Voted with -11 and not marked as "implemented ideas" I know is not exactly the same, what you has just done is even better, but is the same idea, I only want to know if this idea arrived or some ubuntu brainstormer did not appreciate it and other person had the same idea inside Ubuntu because if you miss this suggestion you are missing a lot of other good ideas at ubuntu brainstorm, a great tool that is not being used, as it must be - at least as I see it - Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> - +Michael Hall <https://plus.google.com/109919666334513536939> Sorry i am horrible drawing, but as easy as convert the apps menu to a dock with icons as Unity dock but at the other side of the screen. And submenus with a square 5x5 or 3x3 with a white - or any color - icon at the center to close it and other actions. Also every menu icon with a line for text. For the menu action. When it is difficult to make a icon only the text and the button to touch and different draw than the others that share the square. Of course some menu buttons will open a window with "normal options" then this windows to make it "finger used" must have controls with a size that can be "finger used" and that minds to make submenu options windows redesigned for finger friendly use. not a lot of work for main Ubuntu programs as Firefox, Chromium, Libreoffice and a few more, and let the developers make Unity menu versions if they want. Or even the users with a "easy menu making tool" for Unity Open Source Software And at unity dock an icon with a debian style submenu tree with squares 5x5 or 3x3 with a "white middle icon" for closing it to arrive faster to any program in a finger menu style with a text box under each with the program or folder sub menu name. Of course if you can add a way of customization where you can choose to put the docks up / down / left / right, as you wish, better, but vertical left and right at 16/9 actual screens would be better in my opinion. Last but not least, in order to make translations as fast as possible make a rosseta stone dynamic library matrix where more used menu words are all together as English - Open - Close - Quit - Help - Size Spanish - Abrir - Cerrar - Salir - Ayuda - Tamaño Catalan - Obrir - Tancar - Sortir - Ajuda - Grandària Then any menu can be automatically translated, and a tool for developers to improve this library for new words they use, with a temp "myrosseta" until this words for menus are added to the rosseta matrix I remember there are an app with a debian style Pie menu, something like that but with non par squares - the center icon is for closing - instead of pies, not only for the system, for the apps menus, and where you can choose the size in order to be used at any desktop size with your fingers. Michael Hall <https://plus.google.com/u/0/109919666334513536939> - +Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/102427185464881229528> look at Pencil, it's a good mockup-creation program. http://pencil.evolus.vn/ 20:46 [image: Foto del perfil de Miguel Mayol]<https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> - +Michael Hall <https://plus.google.com/109919666334513536939> i sent you a direct post, as an image cannot be posted in comments, I hope you will understand what I was saying as i am not good painting, even in such a good tool as pencil 21:58 - Modificar - - Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> Sorry if I am not more artist, but I think it can be understand. Of course the top bar is the same as now, and the menu docks can be hidden or show as now. As there are a lot of desktop sizes, and finger sizes, there must be also pre settings for desktop sizes and finger sizes ( 7"/ 8"/ 9" / 10" /11" * screen* + big / medium / small *fingers* ) Miguel Mayol <https://plus.google.com/u/0/102427185464881229528> - sorry for the mistakes I use to make corrections after I read my posts but I do not why I cannot correct it. 21:55 - Modificar [image: Foto del perfil de Michael Hall]<https://plus.google.com/u/0/109919666334513536939> Michael Hall <https://plus.google.com/u/0/109919666334513536939> - That's an interesting idea, and it should be possible since we're already exporting a window's menus over dbus (which is how they get in the globalmenu panel and HUD). Send this to unity-design@lists.launchpad.net along with your description of how it would work. You might emphasize that it's for touch interfaces too.
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