RE: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

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Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame
From: STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) ("STEFFL,)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 23:54:56 EEST

  yes! instead of rigid menus or menus with last N open files etc. there
should be a menu re-arranging functionality that changes parts of the menu
so that the most often used functions are easy to access. For one-prupose
application that's already done, sort of, by designing the menu according
the common usage but for more complex apps that can be used in many ways
(e.g. start/root menu in window manager) it would be really nice to have the
menu changed according to your usage of the menu (since there is no good
default).

  it should be able to remember how many times you use the menu items and
have some sort of frgetting mechanism. I was thinking about implementing
something like that for fvwm (in debian (almost) all X apps and lot of text
mode apps have menu entries in pre-defined category so I was thinking about
putting the most often used ones into top level menu...

  there an interesting user interface used for one of the midi apps, forgot
the name, where you can rearrange all the menus, pin the menus or individual
buttons to workarea etc... it might be interesting to have something like
that in gnome or kde (qt, gtk) or other toolkits...

        erik 

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but fruit flies like a banana... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Shirkey [mailto:pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame
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> Richard Dobson said:
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> >and, wherever possible, ensure that the most frequently 
> performed tasks 
> >(which may be the most argued-over parameter, of course) require the 
> >least number of steps. A sub-menu requires at least four, 
> possibly five 
> >steps: 
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> How difficult would it be to add a statistical analysis 
> function to the
> program which tracks the most used menu items and organises 
> them into a
> seperate menu specifically for the most used items?
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