Another Ubuntu Interface refinement

[zvi]

Heads Up Display will be coming to Precise Pangolin.

From what I can tell, it's similar to gnome-do or Quicksilver, but even more entangled with what we normally think of as menu functions.

Thoughts, reactions, screams of panic and horror? Either yours or that you care to link to in the comments?

Comments

[facetofcathy]

Wow, I really like it--can't wait.

But then I took to Unity right off. I wasn't expecting to, and I have some quibbles with it, but I really like the fuzzy logic keyword search in Unity. That's essentially what this is, and I find the speed of Unity at showing me what I want really useful.

Really hoping that Geany integrates this, and it will make Gimp a whole lot more useful for a casual user like me.

[zvi]

If I understand this correctly (and it's possible I really don't) but HUD should work with any app that creates its menus in the standard gnome way, so Geany definitely. I'm not sure about QT apps.

[facetofcathy]

Hope this is the case. Geany has a lot of nested menus and it would be nice to get to the things I use quickly.

[zvi]

Out of curiousity, have you ever used bluefish? How does it compare to Geany?

[facetofcathy]

I have not tried that. I checked out the features page, and a lot of it is for stuff I don't currently need, but one thing stood out and that was spell check for the non-code part of documents.

I also like the idea of project-specific settings and it supports mediawiki, which would be interesting to have a look at.

I might give that a try.

[dragonwolf]

According to the comments, it should work with any of the standard UI libraries, including QT and GTK.