Canonical wants to menus in Ubuntu are replaced by hud-interface

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Ubuntu gets a ‘head up display’interface, which is the traditional menu structure in the long term is going to be replaced, and eventually control with voice commands to the distribution. The hud makes its debut in Ubuntu 12.04.

The head-up display – or hud-interface the menus in Unity applications eventually replace it, writes Canonicals founder Marc Shuttleworth on his blog. The interface, codenamed Precise Pangolin, will be putting in an appearance in Ubuntu 12.04. The user can set the playback to appear in every Ubuntu application, that the ‘global menu’ supports.

The hud is displayed as a translucent search box on applications. “It is a way to your goal, and the application on the basis of this act”, trying Shuttleworth to clarify. Menus are, according to him, intended as a standard way to enter commands by and to perform the functionality of applications. The hud would implement the commands need to improve.

The problem with the regular menu structure is according to Shuttleworth, that is difficult to navigate is with the keyboard, and that users must have read, while they often already know what they are looking for. In Ubuntu 12.04, will the hud still as a complement to the familiar menu structure. Canonical hopes that users the menus less and less use and that the hud this in the future is going to be replaced, so that the interface is ‘cleaner’. The organization admits that it is without replacement, clogging of the menu’s, what it did earlier, a slightly aggressive decision was made.

The head-up display-interface would take up less space than the Ribbon interface of Microsoft, and work faster than hotkeys, claims Shuttleworth. The system would among other things learn what the user finds important, and on that basis the search results list to customize. In the future, the support for voice commands built-in. “The full integration of voice control in applications is somewhat time-consuming,” according to the Canonical-foreman.