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Now that I think of it, what will happen with the Unity HUD (`alt` key brings a search hud that indexes the app's menu, kind of like Sublime/Atom/VSCode's Control+Shift+P command palette)? Will they port it as a Shell add-on?

After using that for a while and switching to another desktop, I sorely missed it.

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It relies on various hacky patches to e.g. gtk+2.x. There's an extension to add it to GNOME 3, but it still relies on those patches. Ubuntu planned to remove as many patches as possible. So with the extension and those patches it will currently be possible, but might not in future when they remove the patches.

So basically: maybe yes, maybe no.

In Gnome it's the super key which does that. EDIT: scrap that, misread your comment

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