Hey there,
John Yeung wrote:
Little Girl wrote:
Maybe a happy medium would be something similar to the way the mouse cursor disappears after a few seconds when watching a YouTube video. You could have the menu disappear after a few seconds of inactivity, but show back up again on *any* activity, so it wouldn't matter what a user tried, because everything would bring the menu back.
That would defeat the purpose of having the menu go away in the first place. You don't passively watch a text editor.
You do if you're reading the text. Any time you interact with it in any way you'd have a menu and cursor, etc. If you stop and read, everything but the text goes away. It could be an optional setting that's not enabled by default. I think that's about as close as one can get to a happy medium on something like this.
Note: Such a thing is not an option I would enable, but I'm a firm believer in offering users choices, and it's a choice that looks possible to me.