HUD in 12.04?

Robert cole rkcole72984 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 23:02:20 UTC 2012


This is really neat. I am really looking forward to testing it out in 
the near future.

On 01/24/2012 02:47 PM, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 24/01/12 22:30, Dave Hunt wrote:
>> Do we have it right, in concept?  I hope it's usable with Orca by 
>> Beta time!
>>
>>
>> -Dave
>>
> yeah, I think it will be fine by release (not sure about the first 
> betas) it just needs to have an accessible string on the list of 
> suggestions it gives (which would be the same as the visual text, but 
> with HTML markup removed.
> For example if you type "new" in the HUD with thunderbird focussed it 
> might show options below the field for:
>
> File > *New* > Message
> File > *New* > Address book contact
> File > Send *Now*
>
> so it is bolding the word it thinks you typed, putting them in the 
> order of what you most probably meant first, and is doing a bit of 
> fuzzy matching to pick up "Now" being a possible typo for "New". Right 
> now these can get keyboard focus by going down from the edit field, 
> but they don't say anything.
>
> Alan.
>
>




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