[ENH] LongMenus-nk ([et] more opinions..)

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Jun 5 16:59:51 UTC 2003


Simplest answer I've come across - scroll bars on the menu. Leaves the
ordering of entries alone, work on any size screen over miniscule and
when no scrollbar is needed you don't draw it.

My experience is that attempting to change the order of menu entries
based on some heuristic is likely to get very annoying; one of the
reasons short menus are good is that we get 'muscle menory' and can use
them fast. Long menus are in general a bad thing but I conceded they are
the least awful available UI for some choosing operations.

tim
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