Ubuntu HUD Intenterface? Sublime already there!
Summary: Mark Shuttleworth's recent post about the planned Ubuntu Heads Up Display has stirred up a bucket load of interest. See here for what it looks like: The Ubuntu Intenterface!
Mark Shuttleworth's recent post about the planned Ubuntu Heads Up Display has stirred up a bucket load of interest. See here for what it looks like:
The Ubuntu Intenterface!
Name apart, I like the look of it, quite a lot. And I think that's because it's a very good idea I already use: the keystroke launcher GNOME Do, and the command palette in the glorious Sublime Text editor.
The Sublime Text Command Palette, kind of familiar ;)
What I find interesting is that this is a keyboard feature, not really a touchy-feely thing.
Looking forward to trying it out for real :)
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There's an extension for Emacs called Anything that does something similar. Well, new emacsen let you use the star (*) in most menus to do fuzzy matching, but Anything takes it quite a step further.
It's also similar to the Ubiquity project for Firefox, which has trickled down a little into the Awesome bar.
It's also very similar to Quicksilver for Mac, although the HUD is a lot more focused (I never really used Quicksilver when I had a Mac as it was (1) too slow and (2) too confusing, and for the tasks where people said it was so powerful, the command line was always more powerful and less ambiguous).
Not to detract from the HUD by bringing up all those similar projects, it really all depends on execution (multiple discovery is the norm, etc.).