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Comment on Mallard Cheat Sheet by luc

luc — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:02:40 +0000

Great!

Comment on Mallard Cheat Sheet by shaunm

shaunm — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:27:48 +0000

That’s why I made it. I’ll bring a stack.

Comment on Mallard Cheat Sheet by Johannes

Johannes — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:01:05 +0000

Thanks! Can you bring some to Brno

Comment on Mallard Cheat Sheet by shaunm

shaunm — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:43:03 +0000

Create a gitorious project:

https://gitorious.org/projectmallard/mallard-cheat-sheets

Comment on Mallard Cheat Sheet by jh

jh — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:02:46 +0000

The SVG version ? Please.

Comment on Too Much Documentation? by Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:12:22 +0000

Oh bash, that flattering bastard sure can come up with the best compliments.

Comment on Mobile Help With Mallard by » Mobile Mallard and Conditional Processing Shaun's Blog

» Mobile Mallard and Conditional Processing Shaun's Blog — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:53:06 +0000

[...] Last time, I gave a demo of a Mallard document rendered in a way that adapts to handheld devices like phones. Because Mallard is not a presentational language, most of the formatting can be adjusted automatically, and authors don’t have to worry about anything. But sometimes, you really do want to change the content when viewing on a handheld device. [...]

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Comment on Searchable Menu Video by Greg K Nicholson

Greg K Nicholson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:32:25 +0000

Yes! Imagine:

Menu bars as standard have a search field at the end. It returns all matching commands in any of the menus, plus help topics.

And toolbar items. And relevant files from Tracker and/or Zeitgeist.

Activating a result for a command performs the command. The relevant menu also expands showing the relevant command highlighted as if focused. And/or the relevant toolbar button appears depressed. The menu fades out slowly over about two seconds; the toolbar button pops up after about half a second.

This could become a catalogue of all possible commands—an auto-completing command-line. Like the Activities overlay search box, but for just one application.

In future, Gnome applications could have an abstract semantic register of all available commands. Applications can enable and disable commands on this register at any time. All menus and toolbar buttons are drawn from this register. We’d keep Zeitgeist-type data on each command’s usage.

This register would open up possibilities for UIs that could adapt to show most-frequently used commands, or adapt to suit their environment (window size; time of day; geographical location).

Or the Activities overlay could become capable of invoking any command from any installed program.

Hell, this could *replace* the menu bar.

PS: If you think adaptive UIs don’t work because they’re “trying to be too clever”, the failure isn’t in being too ambitious; it’s in not succeeding at being clever enough.

PPS: Besides, this is exactly how Windows’s Start menu works: a finite list of commands accessed by a combination of search and an automatically-generated list of frequently-used commands.

Comment on Searchable Menu Video by ac

ac — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:04:08 +0000

It’s great. I always wanted menu search in apps like GIMP.
IMO it would be good to have keyboard shortcut to move focus to this search.
Putting one item menu also seem unnecessary so i think that putting search directly on menu bar / panel would be better.

Thanks a lot for your work.