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Chance Takashi
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Join date: 22 Feb 2006
Posts: 25
07-19-2006 12:21
I'm trying out the new snapshot stuff and the new pie menu gestures and I fear they're getting the better of me. Perhaps I should've tried it out in test and asked my questions before things went live. Either way, I have two questions:

1. [Edited] Nevermind. It's working as one would expect now. Hmm. Perhaps my original coffee diagnosis was correct. Still having trouble with:

2. The new gestural right click pie menu... it says in the release notes:

From: someone
** Also, pie sub-menus can be accessed with gestures, making it possible to chain gestures together to perform any operation in the pie menu by memory


What gestures are necessary to access the submenus? I right-click-and-hold on my avatar, and mouse down to "Take Off" by way of example. How do I get to the submenu? I tried moving the cursor all the way off the screen... I tried making little circles, back and forth wiggles, slashes, stars, pentagrams and smiley faces... The only thing that got me to a submenu was more clicking which doesn't seem to fit with the whole chaining of gestures...

Oh, and I just noticed that dialog boxes have rounded corners. I hope you know that this will both adversely affect the value of the L$ while also attracting teenagers to the main grid. If I'd only tried this in preview, I could've warned the world with at least three separate sky-is-falling threads in various inappropriate forums. Consider this a lesson I've learned!

Thanks!
CT
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
07-20-2006 10:41
2. Our system isn't quite as advanced as that yet. Basically with the pie menu, you hold down the right mouse button, and "throw" your mouse in a certain direction and release the button *without* having to click again. That's the key. Video demos would rock for this; it's hard to describe in words. Do that for each deeper level of submenu. It's not as efficient as, say, drawing a symbol to activate some deep, buried command at once, but it's faster once you get a hang of it.
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