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

[ratcreature]

It looks interesting. I don't think I'd mind having the program search menus for me. It happens to me quite often that I can't recall where for example viewing the page source in FF is. I keep expecting to find it in view, when it's only in the right click. And viewing the page info is in extras. And Gimp is even worse. I always forget where certain things are, like certain transparency options and other stuff deeper in the menus, even if I use them really often. So if this works like intended I might like it.

[zvi]

I used gnome-do and a different gnomething similar to it before we got Unity (trying to invoke these alternate interfaces in Unity was kind of a pain, so I stopped) and I really liked it. Something even more context specific seems exciting to me.

[ratcreature]

I've not yet switched to unity, but this sounds like it has promise to me as innovation. Especially if it helped with the nested menus. I mean, for example in Gimp I often have my right hand with my tablet pen, and do the main tool switches on the keyboard with my left. If I could go into the menus with the keyboard without having to memorize shortcuts, that could be really nice.