hauken

Joined 4 years ago

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152
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Jan 3
Designer and developer. Creator of https://www.pie-menu.com
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Comment · 1 year ago
Totally agree that radial menus feel so natural for quick tool switching and expert workflows — that’s what inspired Pie Menu.

That said, for dense context menus and dropdowns, I think linear lists are actually faster to scan.

Comment · 1 year ago
I’m a designer who built a radial menu app (Pie Menu) for macOS as a side project. This is the story of what went right, what went wrong, and what I learned turning an idea into a shipped product.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes. We’re having some issues with Adobe apps on some Macs. We hope to have a fix out for that soon!
Comment · 2 years ago
Could you elaborate what you mean by dynamic?
Comment · 2 years ago
No. Not at the moment. We're currently only available in the App Store or in Setapp. Though you could install it via:

$ brew install mas

$ mas install 1631568126

Comment · 2 years ago
In the onboarding you can set your own preferred keyboard shortcut.
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice! That would have probably saved me a lot of time when implementing on the website instead of trial and error. Current version on the website is however only done with CSS (and React).
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks! That is a really fun interaction, and something I think I'll explore as we later on probably will work on submenus.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks. Didn't think of that. Do you have a suggestion of what character I could use for Cyrillic keyboard layout or others?
Comment · 2 years ago
My intention is lifetime without air quotes
Comment · 2 years ago
The things you learn! Good idea: easy fix to allow both on the website.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks! I should test it more thoroughly. Wrapping a couple of the blurs and masks in @supports will probably quickly fix a couple of the issues.
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice! I’ve noticed that I tend to use Pie Menu myself on apps where I frequently switch tools. Like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. Or for apps that have different modes: like Calendar (today, week, month), Things (today, inbox++), Obsidian (daily note, graph view, backlinks).

For other apps where the keyboard shortcuts acts more as other shortcuts I don’t use it as much.

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