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> Grid-styled menus and icon-focused, color-coded items are easy to find and remember.

Reminds me a little of radial menus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu). They don't handle dynamic context menu contents well but they're amazingly efficient.

> Interacting is even faster since Kera Desktop features “press and hold, move and release” gestured menus. Saved you a click!

Note that you can also use right-click menus this way on macOS and GNOME. That is, you mouse down, drag your cursor to the item, and mouse up to select it. The only downside is that if you regularly use Windows it's annoying to unlearn this behavior.

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Yeah I really wanna do radial menus sometime. The video game Sacrifice had nested radials where you could also basically gesture, just go left then up for example. Very explorable & high radix.

Also on XFCE, presumably because it is based on GTK like GNOME, all 3 menu selection methods (right-click, hold down, move, release; right-click and release, move, left-click; right-click and release, move, right-click) work identically.

It is good to have all methods, because the first is best for simple menus while the others are more convenient for complex menus with many hierarchy levels and long lists of menu options.

> Note that this is how right-click menus operate on macOS

Huh? That's not how mine work. Is there a setting for this that I forgot about?

Mine are right-mouse-click (external mouse or trackpad), cursor to item, and then right or left click to select. You can keep your right button clicked, but it's not necessary.

It's not necessary, but you can right-click, hold, move, release instead of right-click, release, move, left-click.

Odd, it does work that way for me! If I move the cursor over a file in Finder, hold right click, move to the context menu option I want, and release the right mouse button, it triggers the action.

In windows the release doesn’t do anything, the right click action just toggles the menu open/not open, so you left click the context menu option after it opens.

Macs have worked like that since forever. Now you can do it both ways. Did you try?

> Note that you can also use right-click menus this way on macOS

also top-screen menu

Just like having a headphone jack is a feature now. Still, combining it with a grid style menu makes it even more efficient.

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