[Bf-funboard] toolbox

[Paul Lunneberg]

Although this is starting to look an awfull lot like maya I think this is better
than the menu items being drawn together in a box of sorts.  When you move your
mouse over one and/or click it the menu would be recentered around the mouse and
replaced with the appropriatly selected submenu.  This would be much clearer
than trying to display the entire menu structure behind the currently selected
menu.  Much cleaner and faster in my opinion... no trying to figure out how the
menus work.  Press spacebar and the menus show up and you select an item.  You
would want two types of buttons though.. One to represent an item with submenus
and a second one to represent an actual function.  I'm all for this "style" of
navigation!
paul

Quoting William Reynish <wreynish@yahoo.dk>:

> After looking at countless suggestions of toolbox designs on this board, I
> wonder why I never see anything like Tons idea discribed in the UI doc. Maybe
> I have missed something, but I think his idea of having the menu items
> floating around the cursor was brilliant and simple. I sounded easy to use
> und uncluttered - I was looking forward to trying it out in 2.30! So why are
> people trying to move away from his idea?  I don't know!
>  
> This is my rendering of Tons toolbox system:
> http://www.shadeless.dk/toolbox.jpg (the names of the buttons I have stolen
> from Thorsten. They seem quite good.)
>  
> The submenus would look exactly like the top menu, again with floating menu
> items. To me this looks like the simplest to make, easiest to use, most
> uncluttered and most expanable way of designing the toolbox.
>  
> What do you say?