Gestural Pie Menus

Could someone please explain how to make Gestural Pie Menus work? The release notes does not provide any usability info on this. I mean, I understand its purpose but I don't get how to execute it.

Sure, it's easy. You know how you right-click to activate pie menu?

Well, now, HOLD down right mouse button. See the faded edges? And drag quickly to any direction, and *release* the mouse button. Your cursor can even be totally off the pie and it'll still work. This is actually how it works in 1.10 too--but the faded edges make it more obvious that you can drag far away, instead of thinking, "I can only click on the pie slice itself."

The new thing is this works with the sub-menus. Currently in 1.10, you can't right-click on a pie sub-menu to drill down through levels (e.g., More > Attach HUD > Top when right-clicking an object). It'll just get stuck. But in Preview 1.11, you can.

Takes a little bit of getting used to but it can speed up your workflow!

I see now. At first I was thinking like "mouse gestures" where you could spell a letter or write a symbol to activate a function. Thank you for explaining, Torley.

Must it have a zooming shrinking effect when you just click on it?

Is it impossible to make effects like this optional?

I can't seem to get this to work, or perhaps I'm just not reading into this correctly. When I click and hold the RMB and drag down over More>, it doesn't expand the next level until I release the button and then I've got to right click again. Perhaps a more natural flow with one click would be in order. Automatically open the submenus when the cursor is held in that direction for a couple of seconds (make it a user definable time span, some people are speed kings while others might want a chance to respond to a malfunctioning mouse pointer).