Window management is a perfect application for pie menus, since many of the directional items can be arranged in obvious layouts, and you use them frequently, s

Window management is a perfect application for pie menus, since many of the directional items can be arranged in obvious layouts, and you use them frequently, so you learn them well and can use them in "expert" mouse-ahead style quickly and efficiently, saving a lot of time overall. For example, the NeWS tabbed window frame pie menus placed the common "front" and "back" commands up and down, had a "grab" submenu with eight directions to drag the four corners and four edges, and a "move" submenu with vertically and horizontally and unconstrained mode, etc. They worked really well with mouse-ahead gestures (with PacMan feedback @ 8:35)! The HyperTIES hypermedia browser had multiple windows in left and right panes, and right-clicking on a link would bring up a pie menu to open it in the left or right pane. Sorry in advance about the terrible video quality! Someday I hope to track down the equipment to read the original dv tapes, and upload better versions. Don Hopkins and pie menus in ~ Spring 1989 on a Sun Workstation, running the NEWS operating system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fne3j7cWzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fne3j7cWzg User Interface Strategies (UIS) 90 - Ben Shneiderman - Applications sections and demos: NeWS HyperTIES Space Telescope Demo, showing left/right pane link pie menus: https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=761 https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=761 The tab pie menus in the PSIBER Space Deck visual PostScript programming environment had directional submenus that would let you customize the layout, pull out to configure the scale, move the tabs to different edges, etc: https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=1484 https://youtu.be/1uyO-xUTt6Y?t=1484 https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo... X10 Pie Menu Window Manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhvB6kwmog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhvB6kwmog NeWS Tab Window Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4 PSIBER Space Deck Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuC_DDgQmsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuC_DDgQmsM HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM Kando is open source and cross platform, and it now lets you make your own window management and many other kinds of pie menus, with custom themes defined in CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVbnLsMnTYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVbnLsMnTYQ