A feature request is to allow the menu to ride along the cursor trajectory, effectively evolving the menu into a gesture GUI. I made an attempt at an svg implementation eight years ago: https://rawgit.com/lgrkvst/d3-sunburst-menu/master/demo/d3-s...
The idea started out great but hit a wall every time you tried to gesture near an edge.
It also felt as though you were playing Witcher 3 casting spells...
I think they're cool, and that's about it, that the Fitts's Law benefit is too small (as argued in the thread I linked), and that the coolness factor fades fairly quickly for most (though I still want some sometimes).
Edit: if it's straightforward to port https://github.com/kando-menu/kando from electron to Tauri that might be interesting. https://github.com/kando-menu/kando/issues/410
An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus. Presented at ACM CHI’88 Conference, Washington DC, 1988.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/an-empirical-comparison-of-pie...
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What does this mean? Should we program pie menus into our bitmapped window systems tomorrow and expect a 15–20% increase in productivity since users can select items slightly faster with pie menus. Pie menus seem promising, but more experiments are needed before issuing a strong recommendation.
First, this experiment only addresses fixed length menus, in particular, menus consisting of 8 items — no more, no less. Secondly, there remains the problem of increased screen real estate usage, In one trial a subject complained because the pie menu obscured his view of the target prompt message. Finally, the questionnaire showed that the subjects were almost evenly divided between pie and linear menus in subjective satisfaction. Many found it difficult to “home in on” a particular item because of the unusual activation region characteristics of the pie menu.
One assumption of this study concerns the use of a mouse/cursor control device and the use of pop-up style menus (as opposed to menus invoked from a fixed screen location or permanent menus). Certainly, pie menus can and in fact have been incorporated to use keyed input [7] and fixed “pull-down” style presentation (the pie menu becomes a semicircle menu). These variations are areas for further research.
Task completion speed would be a better measurement, to capture the effect of the pie menu interfering with the main task by temporarily obscuring it from view.
For example, there are many professional, indie, hobbyist, and ametuer people called "artists" who use pie menus in tools like Blender and Rhino/Grasshopper and Maya all day, and it saves them a lot of valuable time, and vanishingly few of them are actually professional menu selectors.
And thanks to being "self revealing" and supporting "rehearsal", pie menus make it easy for novice menu selectors to become expert menu selectors, with a smooth learning curve.
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/153195/what-are-...
This seems to be separate from the fad of menus that look like donut charts.