[Bug 157400] New containment(/More flexibel panel): Add some kind of "quick menu" that could contain widgets which are used often

[aldo-public at laposte.net]

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------- Additional Comments From aldo-public laposte net  2008-02-11 15:50 -------
Having such a container that pops up under the current position of the cursor would be a great feature, imho.

Currently, in most desktop environment, all those things you want to keep under the hand are on a panel, which has one of those two behaviors:
- either it is always visible, which takes a lot of pixels on the screen
- either it autohides (or can be covered by over windows), in which case it is difficult to access its elements. How are you supposed to aim for some UI element when you don't see it yet ?
In both case, how can you efficiently aim, when you have to do first a big mouse move to the border of the screen ? In this system, you need both big mouse moves, and precision in the end.

With your idea, suppose your container has a shape of a wheel (wheel menu), we minimize the necessary movement of the cursor, and the needed precision (since all the directions around the cursor maybe used for an useful UI element) without using pixels when not needed.

Use case: I need to use klipper widget.
1 - I press button 6 (or another extra-button of the mouse, or an easily reachable key of the keyboard, though if I had to use the keyboard, I would certainly prefer another mechanism, à la krunner)
2 - after a really quick glance I see where is the klipper (if my eyes are already on the cursor, finding the widget will be much quicker than on a panel)
3 - small move of the cursor on the right direction
4 - I release button 6, and the klipper menu appears.