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To test the changed menu live, download [http://biomodel.uah.es/Jmol/JmolMenu-14-4-4_new.menu this file], save it to a known location and load it into Jmol using this command:
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Revision as of 10:33, 11 May 2016

Proposals for alternative menus

Redesign of the default pop-up menu

--AngelHerraez 12:00, 11 May 2016 (CEST)

Rationale:

  • Frequent operations like rendering styles (cartoon, trace, ball and stick) are currently involving 3 or 4 submenus; same for coloring.
  • The regular user may not realize that most of the times the styles need to be applied to the atoms, all other elements just inherit style and color.

Proposal:

  • Simplify the most frequent operations by bringing atom style and color options to the first level submenus.

Menu redesign 1.png Menu redesign 2.png

To test the changed menu live, download this file, save it to a known location and load it into Jmol using this command:

 load menu "somePath/JmolMenu-14-4-4_new.menu"

Contributors

AngelHerraez