[General] Handles on objects deprecated

[Dan Ingalls]

Hi, Dick -

>Fitts' Law says if it is further away and smaller it will take longer to
>get there. And that only works if you can see it, which you can't for LK
>handles.
>
>What if the whole object was the target and when you got your mouse
>cursor on it, you got a pie menu with up to eight choices, and secondary
>menus when more choices are needed. Wouldn't that be quicker to get to
>and more learnable for novices so they can become experts more quickly.

You should have quite some fun firing up the latest LK as per my 
earlier message.

	http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/repository/lively-kernel/trunk/source/kernel/index.xhtml
	(click OK in the huge error notices)

You will find a 'use pie menus'  item in the world menu under 
'preferences' (if it isn't pretty self-explanatory I want to know). 
You know I've been a gesture fan since I put them ("GestureMenus") in 
Fabrik about a quarter century ago ;-).  You may want to go into the 
'simple example morphs' world to play around with them.

>Some basic documentation might also be nice, although when the wiki is
>available, I expect that questions and answers will quickly satisfy my
>needs.

Also you'll find a 'help' item in the world menu that will offer 
'command key help' and take you to text editor help in our TRAC wiki. 
It's a start.

Enjoy
	- Dan
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