<div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/24 Celeste Lyn Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:celeste@kde.org">celeste@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
This is a very interesting concept, but not necessarily for context<br>
menus. Imagine this design proposal as a first step towards merging<br>
window menu and toolbars, not too disimilar from the Microsoft ribbon.<br>
One weakness with the ribbon is that it limits the amount of<br>
functionality by what can graphically fit in the ribbon interface.<br>
<br>
Instead of going pure graphics, you could merge frequently used tasks<br>
(graphics) with extended functions and features (text menu items).<br>
This would preserve the amount of functionality in an application<br>
(Microsoft stripped out some features or moved them to different<br>
places in order to fit them in the ribbon). At the same time, we would<br>
have an updated look and feel to our windowing concept that maximizes<br>
common interactions.<br>
<br>
I think something like this could also be an interesting alternative<br>
to what IE7 does by providing minimal toolbar buttons and menu items,<br>
and hiding everything else. In this design, additional functionality<br>
would be on a true "second layer of disclosure" rather than "hidden<br>
away".<br>
<br>
Anyway, just some thoughts. I don't want to discount the design simply<br>
because of a few minor issues, because it is still in the conceptual<br>
stage. We don't want to shoot down ideas like this too early in the<br>
design process, otherwise we will never innovate.<br>
<br>
Just some thoughts.<br></blockquote><div>I've just setup a trunk kdelibs build on my home computer so I can show some examples of how this would look in both popups and applications menus. However, I won't be home for the holidays and I won't be able to work on this this year. <br>
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