Re:Ubuntu's HUD: Light-years beyond any menu system
by koeselitz on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @12:26AM
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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).
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?
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).
Sweet Jesus this annoys me
That seems contrived. Will it work if you start typing out "extension"?
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.