Hide soft menus?

[DavidM]

Hey Bart -

Thanks for experimenting with the NoMenu prototype. The version posted by James in this post has a later expiration date that should allow you to leave the date set properly (at least until 2017-02-20). It also had a few minor changes and bug fixes.

That said, I have to say that Andreas' solution is much more robust and has been designed from the ground up as a finished product. The NoMenu library is merely a prototype, and its focus is more on testing certain features and not so much on optimizing performance (load up your stack and you'll see what I mean ).

NoMenu was originally targeted at simply removing the menus, but quickly changed to be an experiment with a different goal. Namely, testing out a user interface that dynamically changes based on context. Since the initial feature was removing the menus, the first thing I wanted to test was having the menus automatically reappear in certain contexts. While I'm not yet convinced that my specific implementation of that is the best approach, I do still believe the concept is worth further investigation. It could also apply to display features other than the menus (eg. the header and its contents, stack level numbers, other as-yet-unavailable indicators).

I will confess that part of my motivation for this came from playing with NewRPL. The additional space allocated to NewRPL menus made me begin to think about alternatives to how to use the available display real estate.