Ubuntu's HUD: Light-years beyond any menu system

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12 points·maudlinmau5··8 comments

And if I'm looking for a way in gimp to change all the reddish pixels to greenish, what do I type into the HUD?

If I want to know all the formatting, sizing, coloring stuff that can be done to a word/line/paragraph, what do I type into the HUD?

What's odd to me is that Ubuntu and Gnome are both working separately on things that look remarkably similar. This is the same stuff that Gnome 3 does - pulls up applications, folders, commands, etc via a translucent overlay at the press of a button. The only difference is Ubuntu makes it a HUD so that it doesn't take up the whole screen.

I kind of like Gnome's implementation better, but I can't really use either of them; the Gnome version breaks Alt-Tab (forcing it to cycle window groups instead of windows, and not allowing an option to change this) and Ubuntu breaks a lot of my personal customization (Gnome-Do + AutoKey).

Light years is a measure of distance NOT time, the cliche "years ahead of something" is TIME.

Sweet Jesus this annoys me

I interpreted it as very far ahead distance-wise If this was a race Ubuntu would have a sizable lead, according to TechRepublic.

For example: I’m in Firefox and I want to go the extensions page. I hit Alt (to open up the HUD) and type add.

That seems contrived. Will it work if you start typing out "extension"?

> Light-years beyond any menu system

Mac OS X introduced this type of uniform menu search and result navigation with Leopard in 2007.

Cmd-?

It's great. I use it all the time.

zsh with tilda handles just about all my needs as far as navigating about my computer, and throwing commands at it.

HUD - Horrible UI Design.. !!

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