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I used a radial menu extension in the early versions of Firefox that I thought was fantastic. I assume they don't have more widespread use because it typically
by pram 9y ago
I used a radial menu extension in the early versions of Firefox that I thought was fantastic. I assume they don't have more widespread use because it typically depends on symbol memorization, and people are already used to long lists of things?
- digi_owl 9y agoI suspect i tested the same one, and best i recall it didn't mix well with other extensions that added stuff to the right click menu. Best i can tell, radial works as long as you have a small, fixed set of action that you want to do repeatedly. But once you have a situation where the user can add arbitrary new actions it breaks down because it relies on the actions being sorted and fixed in location. The result, as best i recall, in the Firefox extension case, was that extension added menu entries would dangle of in some "misc" entry at the bottom right of the radial. Effectively turning it into a traditional menu dangling off a radial one...