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From: montnaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
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Subject: Re: Using kinesthetic memory for human interfaces
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Date: 29 Jun 88 20:43:45 GMT
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    JR> == Joel Rives (joel@pyr.gatech.edu)
    BK> == Kort (bwk@mbunix)

    BK>(A pie menu could also include a bulls eye in the middle giving
    BK>room for one more choice.)

    JR>Yes! This bullseye position would also be very approriate for default
    JR>selection.

Suntools remembers the last item selected in a menu and makes it the default
the next time the menu is popped up. The bullseye could represent this
dynamic default, not just a static default. It is easier to implement in
some sense as well, since you don't have to decide ahead of time what the
default should be (and guess wrong most of the time).

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Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com, montanaro@ge-crd.arpa)