Hi, I really love this idea. I've already added (hacked together) something similar for some of my projects so I am happy to see this is going into Pharo.
> - Make it parametrizable to allow users to build a bar with their own menu builder I would love if it was possible to somewhere (Settings?) just specify a pragma that should be used for the construction of the menu... or perhaps even a list of pragmas. That way the existing mechanism can be simply reused and custom menus can be created just as easily. I think this should be very easy to add. I would really love to have this option also for the regular world menu, but I didn't find a way to easily achieve that. > - What do we do when Pharo is not wide enough? Hamburger menu? > - What to do when a window is dragged behind? Currently you cannot drag window above the top side (which I've learned only now :-D ), so the constraint would just move a bit lower? Also, is it (easily) possible to configure the position of the menu? Both top/down, as well as RTL and LTR direction (or right-aligned LTR) which I mentioned for the bottom menu in an earlier github discussion. Peter On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > With Guille we are trying to improve the usability of the WorldMenu. > > The world menu is by large un-intuitive: > - Users are not used to click on a background to open a menu > - For those that "get it" they try to do it with right click (Of > course, it looks like a context menu!) and that does not work > > Since some decades now the default way to display a menu in applications > is to have a bar at the top of the windows. We should change that world > menu by a menu bar like any application. That will lower the entrance > barrier to new users, at the cost of having to move the cursor to the > top to look for the menu... > > You can find here a PR that add the WorldMenu as a top bar to Pharo and > reorganize it: > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1470 > > See screen in the PR. > > It still have room for improvements but we think it's stable enough for > integration in Pharo. > > Missing features: > - What do we do when Pharo is not wide enough? > - What to do when a window is dragged behind? > - Make it parametrizable to allow users to build a bar with their own > menu builder > - Add shortcuts to open the menu windows like (maybe) > - Update it when we change the font size (this is a general Pharo problem) > > Feedback is welcome. > > Related issue: > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22038/Replace-World-Menu-by-Menu-bar > > Guille & Cyril > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr > >
