HUD in 12.04?

[Robert cole]

This was very interesting. Thanks for the link to that post, Dave.

I think that this could be a very powerful feature, especially if it is 
accessible to blind users. As Paul stated, it looks like the menus will 
still be available, and hotkeys should still work. If this works out (as 
stated before with accessibility implemented), I think it would be 
pretty amazing.

Just take this scenario for example:

You are doing something in LibreOffice, and you forgot the shortcut 
key(s) to edit different styles. You could use ALT+F to open the file 
menu, and navigate through all of the menus until you find what you are 
looking for, or you could simply open up the HUD and type in "Style" and 
have every style-related option which exists in the menu trees presented 
to you. That would definitely save a ton of time.

it seems really intuitive.

All I can say is that I installed windows 8 Developer Preview into a 
virtual machine today so that I could begin learning it so I could help 
others when it comes out (I have not been a Windows user for nearly five 
years now), and I really love how Unity and GNOME Shell are coming along 
much better than the Windows 8 interface. I know that there is still 
probably a lot of...I'll just call it user frustration...surrounding 
Unity and GNOME Shell (I was one who was pretty frustrated in the 
beginning)...I think that these two desktops (as well as KDE and XFCE) 
are really shaping up to be something great, especially in the area of 
accessibility.

I am really looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Linux 
desktops.

Thanks again for the link, Dave.

On 01/24/2012 12:48 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> After reading this post, I have no idea what the HUD will look like or 
> how an eyes-free user will use it.
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> Cheers,
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> Dave  Hunt
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> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939
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