Hi Guille & Cyril,

On 1 June 2018 at 14:22, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferlicot@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.

Thanks for this.�� Along with being able to maximise windows
completely, making the task-bar distinct at the bottom, these are
great changes.

Instead of a menu bar at the top, which takes quite a bit of space,
and as mentioned may not fit on a small screen (especially if
applications add entries), how about a "Start" button in the task-bar
that pops up the menu a-la Windows?�� I'm not tied to the name "Start",
it could just be an earth icon, which would save space.�� ��(This is
actually how I interpreted Cyril's original suggestion)

Cheers,
Alistair

> Related issue:
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/22038/Replace-World-Menu-by-Menu-bar
>
> Guille & Cyril
>
> --
> Cyril Ferlicot
> https://ferlicot.fr
>