This is a circular-application-menu (C-A-M) prototype mirroring the same structure as the exisiting application menu for the GNOME desktop. I heard this feature will be available in Windows 7.It’s a menu in a circular form displayed in desktop. The icon of each sub menu is laid around the circle, if we click on the icon another circular of the menus that laid under the icon of the sub menu will be displayed so that we will show two circle on our desktop.Download via getdeb.net
After download finished, just double click it to install it & you can find at Apllication>>Accesories>>Circular-Application-Menu
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The deb has unresolved dependencies on Intrepid. I tried making a clean build for Intrepid but couldn't seem to get the build dependencies.
I have the same problem:
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libgnome-desktop-2
Screenshot of package manager
I tried
sudo apt-get install libgnome-desktop-2-7
sudo apt-get install libgnome-desktop-dev
but that did not work, always the same error :-(
I compiled it for Ubuntu with the Intrepid deps and made a deb for it. I'll get it posed to my PPA asap.
I tried it a few months ago and found it really confusing. I like the idea and the animation but in use it took me about 3 seconds to find the thing I wanted, which is an age in terms of menus and milliseconds.
I realise now how much of my menu skills are position-based memory; when things appear in different places all my internal optimisations go out of the window and I feel like a noob.
I am looking forward to the gnome 3 proposals which have a similar thing in the lower left corner using a quarter of the circle... I think if the position is fixed it might be useful to power users too.
@BobCFC good point. Fitt's law is important for menus. Maybe if the circular menu was in the same place every time you could be even faster at it. The distances to all the items is minimized but it's a different place every time. The traditional menu has long distances to some items but it's the same every time you visit the menu. Seems like this could be fixed in the circular menu.
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