I used piemenus/marking menus heavily when they started off in Alias PowerAnimator. In that implementation there was a tiny delay between opening a menu and its display. It meant that as you became familiar with the gestures you wouldn't need to see a menu, because you'd selected something before it was displayed. This made everything so much faster and it's easy to learn 'memory muscle', like writing a signature, you just do it automatically without conciously thinking about it.
In that application it worked very well. Plus it was amusing confusing people who were trying to watch what you were doing.
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I used piemenus/marking menus heavily when they started off in Alias PowerAnimator. In that implementation there was a tiny delay between opening a menu and its display. It meant that as you became familiar with the gestures you wouldn't need to see a menu, because you'd selected something before it was displayed. This made everything so much faster and it's easy to learn 'memory muscle', like writing a signature, you just do it automatically without conciously thinking about it.
In that application it worked very well. Plus it was amusing confusing people who were trying to watch what you were doing.
paul