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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: long menus -- Re: AW: Changing of GNOME's Menu Structure
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-03-03 12:56:51
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Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > > I don't know if we talk about the same thing: But since Qt 2.1 (some
> > > snapshot) a popup menu automatically arranges the items in multiple columns
> > > if they don't fit into one column anymore.
> > >
> > Yeah, and fill the complete screen in kicker's file browser... I like
> > the scrolling
> > of Mac and win98 way better. Even the way motif does it (or does it
> > netscape?) with
> > this More... -> item is easier to handle with 2000 items. I know it's
> > partly kicker's
> > to not block 2000 items from beeing shown, but the several items thing
> > isn't easy to
> > use I must say.
> 
> I don't like multicolumn either. It slaps into my face for a few seconds
> then dissapears (after selecting the searched item) forcing a huge refresh
> of all the screen. This costs my eyes a half dozen readaptation processes,
> which is very bad (unhealthy).
> 
> A normal brain can't cop up with more than 20-30 elements at once
> (remember, we percive without counting only quantities smaller than 5, we
> loose following at untrained counting - like when counting in a new
> human language - at around 40).
> 
> I think the best solution (I really like it a lot) is XEmacs' one: when
> the to-be-displayed collection of items doesn't fit into one column,
> calculate how many columns would be needed and then build as many
> alphabetic splits, which then use to populate a first level menu, with
> appropriate alphabetically structured submenus:
> 
> Kicker > Quick Browser > Home > .Xdefault to kde/         > ... files
>                                                           > ...
>                                                           > ...
> 
>                               > kde2ics.tgz to thesaurus/ >
>                                                           >
>                                                           >
> 
>                               > win-misc/ to work/        >
>                                                           >
> 
> 
> 
> ? Good? Bad? Interesting but useless?
> 
I've never seen it in xemacs - but it sounds good

Greetings, Stephan

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