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Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus

Posted by timothy on from the shaking-things-up dept.

For the first few years of its existence, it would have been fair to say that Canonical was essentially polishing, packaging and publishing Debian Linux (and Gnome) to create the base Ubuntu desktop, to great acclaim. For the past few years, though, the company has pushed new looks and new applications (cf. Unity and Ubuntu TV), and refused to stick with prettifying existing interfaces. Now, Barence writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Ubuntu is set to replace the 30-year-old computer menu system with a 'Head-Up Display' that allows users to simply type or speak menu commands. Instead of hunting through drop-down menus to find application commands, Ubuntu's Head-Up Display lets users type what they want to do into a search box. The system suggests possible commands as the user begins typing – entering 'Rad' would bring up the Radial blur command in the GIMP art package, for example. HUD also uses fuzzy matching and learns from past searches to ensure the correct commands are offered to users. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth told PC Pro the HUD will make it easier for people to learn new software packages, and migrate from Windows to Linux software without having to relearn menus. The HUD will first appear in Ubuntu 12.04."

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  1. Re:type g for .. DONT WASTE YOUR MOD POINTS HERE by miknix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't waste your mod points here... use them in registered users instead to affect their karma.

    Trolls have been using this trick for years:
    1) post random garbage as Anon;
    2) wait until moderators waste their mod points with it
    3) post flamebait thread;
    4) if your flamebait thread is getting modded down, start from 1)
    ???
    5) get paid by internet reputation agencies, $$$$ profit?

  2. Re:type g for .. DONT WASTE YOUR MOD POINTS HERE by oakgrove · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's very interesting. Seems a little conspiratorial but I wouldn't discount it completely. I always wondered why Linux posts seem to have so many ac flames in the first few comments. Hmmm...

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  3. Re:type g for .. DONT WASTE YOUR MOD POINTS HERE by miknix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I always wondered why Linux posts seem to have so many ac flames in the first few comments. Hmmm...

    My thoughts exactly..

  4. Re:Dumb ass by oakgrove · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or if you have something to say you could just own up to it.

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