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There are many implementation "circle menu" but any one for KDE
sample menus
For example

Main advantages:
- save space (very important for netbooks)
- equals distance for all options (very important for touchpad)

I know, that we have icon for hide/show menu, and thi is good, but this menu is a old bar.

Hm, if this menu is only meant to make it easier to get access to the favs or the ordinary k-menu I'd like to think it would be more worthwhile to be able to set what the mousebuttons to if clicked on the desktop:

I.e.

1. Left-click: launch whatever the pointer is over.
2. Right-click: bring forth the context-sensitive menu
3. Middle-click: bring forth the k-menu

Okay, maybe I'm old-school but that's THE one thing I for now miss from KDE3.

we could take some inspiration from games. For instance ETQW has a very nice and usuable circle m

I think it should not be complicate to implement such a QWidget.
Edit:
I try to create such a widget.

This Thread has caused a new development!
Now I have made a working QGraphicsItem for such menus.
I should add a Widget-class for easier creation. The main.cpp is really ugly, you will see what I mean.
But the existing class provides a few usefuls features:
-A KIcon
-Signals ~like in QAbstractButton
-Submenus or Subwidgets
-Specifying the arch (full circle or only a half circle, clockwise or against clockwise, rotation)
I have drawn the circle using a QPainterPath, that is ugly. Should I use QPixmap? Or a SVG-Class? Any suggestions?

When these tasks are down it is still not a real menu for Plasma, it is just a widget. Maybe anybody could help, because I am unexperienced with KDE-configuration-files and other needed stuff.

http://files.the-user.org/CircleMenu.tar.bz2
It contains my compiled data for Linux i686. For compiling do:

Code: Select all

qmake
make


The User

Hi!
After a week without circlemenu-development I have continued and there are now two classes, a QGraphicsItem for applications using Plasma or QGraphicsView and a QWidget for "normal" applications as alternative to QMenu.
But I have still no idea, what kind of pointer I should use for drawing of the circle. QPixmap, any SVG-class, QIcon (KIcon inherits QIcon) or something else?

The User

The User wrote:Hi!
After a week without circlemenu-development I have continued and there are now two classes, a QGraphicsItem for applications using Plasma or QGraphicsView and a QWidget for "normal" applications as alternative to QMenu.
But I have still no idea, what kind of pointer I should use for drawing of the circle. QPixmap, any SVG-class, QIcon (KIcon inherits QIcon) or something else?

The User

Try posting your questions here: Developers/Helping hands

Okay. Thank you.

Well it seems that someone "beat" The User to it, as I just found plasmoid on KDE-Look called Daisy which is more or less circular menu.
Here's the link:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... ent=102077

I will have a look at it.
I like concurrence and this implementation will help me.