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Pie Menus
| are designed to
| be free,
| easy to learn,
| teach themselves,
| save time,
| reduce errors,
| prevent frustration,
| provide rich
| expressive feedback,
| support robust
| real-world applications,
| integrate easily
| into diverse
| workflow environments,
| serve as
| a free software
| design example
| as well as
| an inspiration
| for further research,
| and as
| a benefit to
| project managers,
| software developers,
| academic researchers,
| computer programmers,
| usability specialists,
| user interface designers,
| web browsers,
| game players,
| students,
| hobbiests,
| hackers,
| busy people
| with tight deadlines,
| limited budgets
| and ambitious projects
| to deliver,
| people who have
| better ways
| to spend their life
| than pushing
| a mouse around,
| pointing and pecking
| at tiny targets
| like trained chickens:
| most importantly
| the users.
| ====
| The pie menu
| source code
| and the ideas
| behind pie menus
| were developed
| over time
| by Don Hopkins,
| thanks to
| the support of:
| University of Maryland,
| UniPress Software,
| Sun Microsystems,
| DUX Software,
| Turing Institute,
| Carnegie Mellon University,
| Kaleida Labs,
| Interval Research Corporation,
| Maxis Software,
| Electronic Arts,
| Lush Creations,
| Mike Gallaher,
| Mark Weiser,
| Jack Callahan,
| Ben Shneiderman,
| Mitch Bradley,
| Owen Densmore,
| Arthur van Hoff,
| Martha Zimet,
| James Gosling,
| David Rosenthal,
| Ted Selker,
| David Liddle,
| Brad Meyers,
| Bill Verplank,
| Craig Hubley,
| Bob Adams,
| David Levitt,
| Russel Nelson,
| John Gilmore,
| Hugh Daniel,
| Josh Siegel,
| Mary Hopkins,
| Levi Kruger,
| Jim Mackraz,
| Eric Bowman,
| Jamie Doornbos
| and Will Wright.
| ====
| Dedicated
| to
| the
| memory
| of
| Mark
| Weiser
| and
| Alan
| Turing
| ====