Zooming with Eagle Mode

Posted Aug 21, 2014 13:47 UTC (Thu) by tshow (subscriber, #6411)
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Jef Raskin devoted a good chunk of his "The Humane Interface" book to zooming UIs.

Zooming with Eagle Mode

Posted Aug 26, 2014 9:16 UTC (Tue) by gasche (subscriber, #74946) [Link] (2 responses)

KDE4 announced that it would experiment with ZUI; see for example this 2007 story on the future of Plasma, citing Jeff Raskin's work. I'm not sure why the ZUI was dropped or never materialized into a useful, well-known tool. I suspect after the release the KDE4 developers were very busy working on stuff to "make users less angry", and never got time to work on the more experimental stuff.

Zooming with Eagle Mode

Posted Aug 26, 2014 9:30 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

I remember playing with it; I also remember we tried to implement a zui for shape object selection in KOffice back then. The problem was that even with a prototype implementation it already becomes quite clear that zui's don't work -- they sound cool but are a bad idea if you care about usability and productivity.

Zooming with Eagle Mode

Posted Aug 27, 2014 11:43 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

I think I have to disagree. I just have discovered this application: http://strlen.com/treesheets/

The menu and toolbars are a classic GUI, but the grid editor is a ZUI, and it works considerably well.