Shuttleworth: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

Here's a lengthy posting from Mark Shuttleworth describing the "heads-up display" concept that Ubuntu is pushing toward. "It’s smart, because it can do things like fuzzy matching, and it can learn what you usually do so it can prioritise the things you use often. It covers the focused app (because that’s where you probably want to act) as well as system functionality; you can change IM state, or go offline in Skype, all through the HUD, without changing focus, because those apps all talk to the indicator system. When you’ve been using it for a little while it seems like it’s reading your mind, in a good way."

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