Re: [Usability] Cascading Menus, Context Menus, and Moving Files

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:14:52PM -0400, Jacob Beauregard wrote:
> 
> Do you think that if context submenus were presented in the fashion of a tree 
> rather than cascading that it would be more useful? I think it would, but I 
> can't quite imagine how it would look.

I can imagine how it would look.
The first question would be wether the menu should grow to include 
the sub level, or if the sub level should be drawn on top.
The problem is that it would make searching for an item terribly slow, 
as then submenus don't appear on the side on just mouse-over.

A while ago I came up with the idea to allow clicking on menu items 
(that have sub-menus) to close the current menu level and extend the 
area of the submenu such that the mouse pointer is above it.
Clicking to enter the submenu without moving submenu labels or the 
pointer. A single click to avoid a sometimes not too easy mouse move.
But who would ever think of clicking on sub-menu parents now?


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