In case anyone is interested:   I recently came across Menuwhere, a Mac utility that provides an easy way to access menu items anywhere on the screen in a similar way that Smart Option Display lets you access tools.  I use the 'Q' key for Smart Option display ("quick") because I've never been comfortable with the way the space bar also invokes panning and the boomerang feature.  I've set Control-Q to invoke Menuwhere, so I can access menus wherever my cursor is.  A nice added feature i